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601. Great BRAGGERS, little doers.

602. Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. -- George Bernard Shaw

603. Great careers don't come without sacrifice. Something in your life will probably have to go. Decide, now, what you're willing to forfeit to get what you want. --Cydney and Leslie Shields,

604. Great causes and little men go ill together.--Jawaharlal Nehru

605. Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

606. Great cry and little wool.

607. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. Herodotus

608. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. --Alexander Graham Bell

609. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.--William Shakespeare, Henry IV

610. Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor.

611. Great events may stem from words of no importance.

612. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

613. Great Googly-Moogly

614. Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

615. Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

616. Great ideas originate in the muscles.

617. Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

618. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.--Thomas Jefferson

619. Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning. --Theodor Reik

620. Great intellects are skeptical. --Friederich Nietzsche

621. Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. --Thomas Fuller

622. Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment. --George Santayana

623. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. --Henry Fielding

624. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. -- Ezra Pound

625. Great men are great warriors.

626. Great men are not always wise. Biblical Proverb

627. Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.--Edmund Burke

628. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

629. Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

630. Great men may die, but there ideas won't. (Kelly Nelson)

631. Great men's sons seldom do well.

632. Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people.

633. Great minds discuss ideas; small ones, people.

634. Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. --Washington Irving

635. Great minds like a think!

636. Great minds think alike.

637. Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is money

638. Great oaks from little acorns grow

639. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.--Bishop Westcott

640. Great Opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch

641. Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

642. Great praise is heaped on prudence; yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.

643. Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

644. Great souls endure in silence. --Friedrich Schiller

645. Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. --Chinese Proverb

646. Great spenders are bad lenders.

647. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Albert Einstein

648. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

649. Great strokes make not sweet music.

650. Great talk and little action

651. Great talkers are great liars.

652. Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. --William Hazlitt

653. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, But great actions speak to all mankind. -- Emily P. Bissell

654. Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

655. Great trees keep down little ones.

656. Great undertakings cannot succeed during periods of division and mutual alienation. The superior man recognizes the circumstances, does not become impatient, and sets about achieving gradual improvements in small matters.

657. Great winds blow upon high hills.

658. Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous.

659. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

660. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.--Samuel Johnson, 1759.

661. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

662. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

663. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

664. Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

665. Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

666. Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

667. Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

668. Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

669. Greed is at the Root of all Deception.--Yiddish Proverbs

670. Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all are derived from foolishness. Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.

671. Greedy folk have long arms.

672. Greeks invented three kinds of columns: Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic.

673. Green Christmas brings white Easter.

674. Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

675. Green's Law of Debate: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

676. Grelb's Reminder: Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.

677. Grey hairs are death's blossoms.

678. Greyhounds--------Don't leave home without adopting one!

679. Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly.

680. Grief is natural to the mortal world, and is always about thee; pleasure is a guest, and visiteth thee but by thy invitation; use well thy mind, and sorrow shall be passed behind thee; be prudent, and the visits of joy shall remain long with thee.

681. Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -- Benjamin Disraeli

682. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness eve can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

683. Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.

684. Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

685. Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.

686. Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

687. Groups mustn't float.

688. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

689. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!--Robert Browning

690. Growing darkness taking dawn, I was me but now he's gone

691. Growing is not easy, plain sailing business that it is commonly supposed to be: it is hard work - harder than any but a growing boy can understand; it requires attention, and you are not strong enough to attend to your bodily growth and to your lessons too.

692. Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

693. Growing old is not growing up.

694. Growth is the only evidence of life.

695. Grub first, then ethics.

696. Guarantee: A legal vehicle which expires on the same day as your mechanical one.

697. Guests who kill talk show hosts--On the last Geraldo.

698. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

699. Guidelines for Bureaucrats: When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate.When in doubt, mumble. -- James H. Borden

700. Guilt -- the gift that keeps on giving!


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