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GENTILITY

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi

GLAMOROUS

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Heddy Lamarr

GOD

If God did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

God is love, but get it in writing.
Gypsy Rose Lee

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H.L. Mencken

God will forgive me; that's his business.
Heinrich Heine

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H.L.Mencken

GOLF

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G.K. Chesterton

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

GOOD

The good die young- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
John Barrymore

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clair Boothe Luce

GOOD EXAMPLE

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

GOOD LOOKS

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

GOSSIP

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

GRATITUDE

I feel a very unusual sensation- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of future favors.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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