I.B. George Quotes

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

His bark is worse than his bite.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

The offender never pardons.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

An old dog barks not in vain.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.