I.B. George Quotes

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

It's all in the mind.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Caricature is rough truth.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

"No comment" is a comment.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

We must have a passion in life.

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.