I.B. George Quotes

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

Truth is mighty and it will prevail.

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.