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George Quotes A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight,... A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ... A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge; it is more... A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.... A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. ... A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds... A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ... A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest... A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. ... A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him... A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible “lifestyles” turns... A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the... Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory. ... Activity is the only road to knowledge. ... All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by... All great truths begin as blasphemies. ... All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be... Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ... Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does; it is one of the sensible things that nature... America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such... An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. ... And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep. ... And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a... Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never... Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I... Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. ... As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ... Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ... Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; it is better to be alone than... Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ... Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb.... Believe in something larger than yourself. ... Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you... Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ... Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ... Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. ... Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ... But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which... Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. ... Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them. ... Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. ... Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles. ... Culture is on the horns of this dilemma; if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it... Days change so many things - yes, hours - we see so differently in suns and showers. ... Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in... Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ... Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong... Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary. ... Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of... Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ... Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the... Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the... Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two... Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two... Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ... (Driving) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you... Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow. ... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past... Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some... Education: a debt due from present to future generations. ... Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a... Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. ... Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ... Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. ... Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ... Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ... Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait... Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. ... Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. ... Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. ... Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ... Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ... Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ... First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ... Football combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ... Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ... For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is... For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local... For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? ... Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! ... Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions;... Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same... Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is... Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are... Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. ... Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.... Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ... Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke. ... Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ... Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ... Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. ... Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.... Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.... Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ... Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ... Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People... He who can , does. He who cannot, teaches. ... He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ... He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ... He who has never hoped can never despair. ... He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? ... He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against... He's no failure. He's not dead yet. ... History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally true…We never know enough about the infinitely complex... Hope is the poor man's bread. ... How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic... I could prove God statistically. ... I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as... I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a... I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the... I get a standing ovation jaust standing. ... I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ... I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success... I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for oneself. ... I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you... I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget... I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the... I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being... I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity... I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along... I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.... I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. ... I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. ... If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of... If a man does his best, what else is there? ... If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience ... If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into... If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. ... If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing... If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I... If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should... If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find... If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.... I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as... In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ... In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo,... In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the... In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.' ... In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise,... In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice... In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. ... It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ... It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can... It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. ... It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check... It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them... It is never too late to be what we might have been. ... It is never too late to be what you might have been. ... It is not observed in history that families improve with time. ... It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of... It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me... It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all... It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are... [It was an attempt] to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. ... It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer... It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.... It's not hard to tell we was poor when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. ... Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ... Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ... Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed... Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ... Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when... Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. ... Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a... Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ... Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ... Love and a cough cannot be hid. ... Love demands infinitely less than friendship. ... Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. ... Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. ... Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. ... Man is what he believes. ... Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the... Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. ... Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor... May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ... Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true. ... Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ... Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. ... Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man. ... Music is esentially useless, as is life. ... My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ... My grandkids say, Reality Bites. O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to... My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain... My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks... Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their... Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise... Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ... Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. ... Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ... No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. ... No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ... No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. ... No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. ... Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ... Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a... Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that... Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in... Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ... Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ... Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ... Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ... Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. ... On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down... On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.... One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of... [One sometimes feels] a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ... One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.... One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ... Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ... Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ... Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ... Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ... Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. ... Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as... Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually... Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. ... Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ... People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get... People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit... People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit... People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because... Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal... Play is the beginning of knowledge. ... Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to... Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its... Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ... Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. ... Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore,... Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left. ... Sanity is a madness put to good uses. ... Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. ... Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ... Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the... Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ... Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my... Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ... Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why... Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask,... Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never... Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ... Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over... Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. ... Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken. ... Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ... Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the... Swindon: What will history say? Burgoyne: History, sir, will tell lies as usual. ... Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still. ... The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ... The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no,... The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they... The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. ... The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart... [The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ... The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is... The art of government is the organization of idolatry. ... The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.... The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.... The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last... The best mirror is an old friend. ... The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let... The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons. ... The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. ... The difficulty in life is the choice. ... The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the... The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact... The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. ... The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ... The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels... The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as... The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. ... The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding... The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. ... The highest of distinctions is service to others. ... The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. ... The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the... The longer the title, the less important the job. ... The man who listens to Reason is lost; reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master... The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ... The most popular labor-saving device is still money. ... The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as... The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion... The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for... The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for... The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ... The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew every time he sees me,... The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you... The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances... The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ... The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly... The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ... The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to... The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. ... The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.... The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.... The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. ... The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ... The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion,... The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and they... The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ... The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ... The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study... The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of... The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ... The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own... The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. ... The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.... The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now... The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is... There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with... There are many victories worse than a defeat. ... There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ... There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them... There are two tragedies in life, one is to not get your heart's desire. The other is to get... There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in... There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ... There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies... There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ... There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job. ... There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ... There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ... There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who... There is no time like the pleasant. ... There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved. ... There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ... There is only one universal passion: fear. ... There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none... There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.... There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't... There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ... They're only truly great who are truly good. ... This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. ... This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty... This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;... Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.... Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow... 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. ... To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a... To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. ... To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love... To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. ... To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two. ... To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise. ... To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to... To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody. ... To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not... Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting... True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled... Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to... Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all... Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make... Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all... Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ... We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. ... We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ... We are immortal until our work on earth is done. ...