I.B. George Quotes

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

Africa is poor because she is not free.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Brains are not everything.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.