I.B. George Quotes

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

The eyes have one language everywhere.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Pressure makes diamonds

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?