W. L. George Quotes
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.
When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.
If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.
