A wise traveler never despises his own country. Carlo Goldoni on travel
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. Oliver Goldsmith on adversity
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease. Oliver Goldsmith on age
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith on hope
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith on hope
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn on movies
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Goncourt on love
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Nelson Goodman on agreement
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Nelson Goodman on truth
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov on change
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. George Gordon on love
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. Maxim Gorky on charity
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. Baltasar Gracian on ambition
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Baltasar Gracian on art
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. Baltasar Gracian on cunning
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Baltasar Gracian on growth
To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. Thomas Gray on pleasure
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. Horace Greeley on conservative-liberal
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. Horace Greeley on labor
Avarice, sphincter of the heart. Michael Greene on avarice