I.B. George Quotes

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Every path hath a puddle.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.