I.B. George Quotes

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

All men have opinions, but few think.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.

People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

If you want people to respect you or your company, you must first show respect for them.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.