Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first. - Samoan (on practicality)
Genius is only a great aptitude for patience. - Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788)
Genius is ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Get out of harms way. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Get to the root of the problem. - unknown
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he’ll eat forever. - Chinese Proverb
Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.- Korean (on parenting and children)
Give assistance not advice in a crisis. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Give credit where credit is due. - M. Floy (1834)
Give even an onion, graciously. - Afghan (on generosity)
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. - unknown
Give good and get good. - Estonian (on generosity)
Give the devil his due. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Give thy thoughts no tongue. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Give up the ghost. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Given a challenge, rise to the occasion. - unknown
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack’d and never well mended. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Go for it. - American (on ambition)
God did not create hurry. - Finnish (on balance and moderation)
God gave us music that we might pray without words. - unknown
God gave us the nuts but he doesn’t crack them. - German Proverb
God grant me a good sword and no use for it. - Polish (on war and peace)
God helps those who help themselves. - George Herbert (1593-1632)
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. - unknown
Going beyond is as bad as falling short. - Chinese (on balance and moderation)
Gold is the devil’s fishhook. - Italian (on temptation)
Good counsellors lack no clients. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Good deeds are the best prayer. - Serbian (on prayer)
Good example is the best sermon. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II
Good things come in small packages. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Good things come when you least expect them. - unknown
Good to forgive, better to forget. - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Good wine needs no bush. - R. Taverner (1545)
Good words are worth much and cost little. - George Herbert (1593-1632)
Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in goodness. - Athenaeus (c.200)
Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle. - Yugoslavian (on patience)
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Great actions are not always true sons of great and mighty resolutions. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Great chiefs prove their worthiness. - Seneca Proverb
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Great ideas are the fuel of progress. - unknown
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Great minds think alike. - “Punch” (c.1922)
Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Great spenders are bad lenders. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Greed often overreaches itself. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Grin and bear it. - unknown
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