I.B. George Quotes

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.