I.B. George Quotes

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Dance is music made visible

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'