I.B. George Quotes

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Love one another (His last words)

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

Always do more than is required of you.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place!

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.