1,000,001 Things I Wish I Had Said First

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

          Jane Hopkins

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

          Thomas Alva Edison

Gentlemen, I have nothing to say. Any questions?

          Phil Watson

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

          Mark Twain

Gil Hodges is so strong he could snap your earbrows off.

          Casey Stengel

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

          Abraham Kaplan

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

          Vilfredo Pareto

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough. I can singlehandedly move the world.

          Archimedes

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

          Frank Lloyd Wright

Glory gives herself only to those who always dreamed of her.

          Charles de Gaulle

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

          Voltaire

God made the natural numbers; all the rest is the work of man.

          Leopold Kronecker

God will pardon me. It is his trade.

          Heinrich Heine, last words

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

          unknown

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

          Mark Twain

Good consistency means that the canned pumpkin . . . after emptying from the container to a dry-flat surface . . . holds a high mound formation, and at the end of two minutes after emptying on such a surface the highest point on the mound is not less than 60 per cent of the height of the container.

          Defense Department specifications for the procurement of
          canned pumpkin, paragraph 52.2747

Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgment.

          anonymous

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

          unknown

Good morning, dear lemons. How juicy you look today.

          label on a Japanese lemon soft drink

Greatness is nothing more than consistent goodness. If we are consistently good, we can't fail to be great.

          Bill Roy