I.B. George Quotes

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

I never take counsel of my fears.

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Religion is just mind control.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.