I.B. George Quotes

Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

Syllables govern the world.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.