Noun
One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
A pilot; a steersman.
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI decided to run for governor because I got mad.... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. Jesse Ventura
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. Sophocles
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things. Christopher Hitchens
A governor may commit arson while the governed are not allowed to light a lamp. Chinese Proverb
Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician. Traditional Proverb
The governor must fill your jars. Turkish Proverb