- Garbage in, Garbage out.
- Sometimes abbreviated GIGO.
- Get four Episcopalians together and a fifth will always appear. (Humor intended!)
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
- Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or repay you for it)
- Implying that people live up to stereotypes given to them or that individuals are corrupted by the illtreatment that goes with being given a bad name
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Knowledge is the best charity.
- To learn a lesson is a far better reward than to receive a gift.
- It is better to know how to help yourself than to beg from others.
- Give a man a match, he shall be warm for a moment. Light a man on fire and he shall be warm for the rest of his life.
- Give and take is fair play.
- Give, and ye shall receive.
- Give credit where credit is due.
- Variant: Give the Devil his due.
- Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
- meaning: Once concessions have been made to someone they will demand a great deal more
- Variant: Give the Camel and inch and it will take an ell.
- Variant: Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.
- Give people a common enemy and hopefully they will work together
- Give respect, take respect.
- Go with the flow
- God cures and the physician takes the fee.
- God don't like ugly and he ain't stuck on pretty.
- God takes care of drunks.
- A good beginning makes (for) a good ending.
- Chinese Version: A good beginning is half a succession-好的开始是成功的一半
- Meaning: Planning is the key to success.
- Good eating deserves good drinking.
- A good enemy is a better person than a false friend.
- Good fences make good neighbors.
- A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.
- Good men are hard to find.
- A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
- Good wine needs no bush.
- Meaning: Something desirable of quality and substance need not be embellished. It was customary since early times to hang a grapevine, ivy or other greenery over the door of a tavern or way stop to advertise the availability of drink within, once something establishes a good reputation for quality the advertisement is rendered superfluous.
- The grass is always greener on the other side...
- Meaning: You will always want what you don't (or can't) have.
- Great cry little wool.
- Great events cast their shadows before them.
- Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.
- Great minds think alike, as do lesser ones.
- Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- meaning: Wonderful things come from tiny things.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do..
- The greatest thing that could happen in my lifetime is for all my ideas to be stolen.
- Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree.
- Many possible interpretations- Things change over time- If you are good at one aspect of a skill, you should be skilled at the other aspects, such as a painter who says he can't draw, yet both painting and drawing are aspects of art.- No matter of the outside, we are all the same inside.
- Grow where you are planted.
- A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
- Guns for show, knives for a pro.
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