I.B. George Quotes

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

He who has never hoped can never despair

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

To be a champion you must live like one.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.