I.B. George Quotes

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

False love is only blinder.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

I didn't come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong.

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.