I.B. George Quotes

Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.