I.B. George Quotes

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?

There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Does killing time damage eternity?

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.