W. L. George Quotes
...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.
You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.
The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.