I.B. George Quotes
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.