I.B. George Quotes

The main reason women are crazy, is that men are stupid.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.

A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.