W. L. George Quotes
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
