I.B. George Quotes

I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

God's mill grinds slow but sure.

This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.