I.B. George Quotes

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.