I.B. George Quotes

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)

Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.

The whole universe interest me.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

How can I die? I'm booked.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.