W. L. George Quotes

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Trouble's made us kin.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.

If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.