I.B. George Quotes
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.
