I.B. George Quotes

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Nobody notices when things go right.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Whatever, I'm getting cheese fries.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?

How is it possible to have a civil war?

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Life is tough, then you die.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.