I.B. George Quotes
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.
...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
