I.B. George Quotes

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.