I.B. George Quotes

For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Give loosers leave to talke.

Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

God comes to see without a bell.

God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.

God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Good is god, but better carries it.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

Good land, evill way.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

Never was strumpet faire.

No Alchymy to saving.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

None is borne Master.

None is offended but by himselfe.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

None saies his Garner is full.

Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.

Nothing dries sooner then a teare.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Of a new Prince, new bondage.

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.