I.B. George Quotes

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do that I have not been able to accomplish.

International sport is war without shooting.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

All great truths began as blasphemies.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.

It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

Our words have wings but fly not where we would.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.