I.B. George Quotes
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
O sweet September thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.
A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.
A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.
Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.
