I.B. George Quotes

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Moral: It all depends.

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

The living need charity more than the dead.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

My muse must come to me on union time.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.