I.B. George Quotes

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Not to love is to cease to live.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Fear is faithlessness.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.