I.B. George Quotes

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

The only city people are those born so.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.