I.B. George Quotes

Krishna is dwelling in the hearts of everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of body you've got, the Lord's there with you. We're all the same really.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . .

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

I was not born to crush my own kind.

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.

We must walk before we run.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

Those that God loves, do not live long.

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

War is death's feast.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

Service without reward is punishment.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Better a bare foote then none.

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

Trust not one night's ice.

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.