I.B. George Quotes

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.

There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation of an existing law.

It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.

We're looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.

There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.

Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.