I.B. George Quotes

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.

I thought I saw the face of God.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

They told me I wouldn't make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking - they're all dead now.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?

When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.