I.B. George Quotes

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Man cannot choose his duties.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

All books are merely delayed dust.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it