George Bush

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. George Bush Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. George Bush, "All the Best, George Bush"

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George Burns

Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George BurnsHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George BurnsI was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. George BurnsI'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George BurnsI'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. George BurnsIf you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. George BurnsIf you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George BurnsRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George BurnsThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. George Burns Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. George BurnsYou can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George BurnsYou know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns

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George Washington

Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. George WashingtonAssociate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. George WashingtonBe courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George WashingtonFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George WashingtonIt's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing. George WashingtonLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. George WashingtonOur cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind! George WashingtonIf we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington, Fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793 It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791

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George Santayana

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 30 total A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George SantayanaA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George SantayanaSanity is a madness put to good use. George SantayanaScience is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George SantayanaThe body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George SantayanaWhy shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. George SantayanaOur character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis" The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, IntroductionAn artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines" Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

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George Wallace

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? George Wallace

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George Jean Nathan

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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
George Jean Nathan

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
George Jean Nathan

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
George Jean Nathan

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
George Jean Nathan

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
George Jean Nathan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
George Jean Nathan

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Type: Editor
Nationality: American
Born: February 14, 1882
Died: April 8, 1958

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George Shelley

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend. George Shelley

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George Michael Reveals Split From Longtime Partner on Opening Night of Tour

The singer also honors Amy Winehouse as he kicks off his "Symphonica" tour at the Prague State Opera House.

George Michael revealed Monday that he has split from his longtime partner, Kenny Goss, during the opening night of his Symphonica tour.

The singer told the crowd at the Prague State Opera House that "Kenny and I haven't been together for two and a half years," the Associated Press reported.

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The breakup came partly because of the fallout related to Goss' struggle with alcohol addiction.

During his performance, Michael decided a new song titled "Where I Hope You Are" to Goss.

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Michael had previously denied rumors that he and Goss had split but said Monday: "It's time to be honest."

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David Lloyd George

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

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George Sand

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand

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George Santayana

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 30 total A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George SantayanaA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George SantayanaSanity is a madness put to good use. George SantayanaScience is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George SantayanaThe body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George SantayanaWhy shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. George SantayanaOur character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis" The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, IntroductionAn artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines" Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

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George A. Smith

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
George A. Smith

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
George A. Smith

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
George A. Smith

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.
George A. Smith

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
George A. Smith

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
George A. Smith

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
George A. Smith

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
George A. Smith

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
George A. Smith

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
George A. Smith

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
George A. Smith

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George Burns

Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George BurnsHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George BurnsI was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. George BurnsI'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George BurnsI'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. George BurnsIf you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. George BurnsIf you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George BurnsRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George BurnsThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. George Burns Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. George BurnsYou can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George BurnsYou know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns

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George Carlin

Always do whatever's next.
George Carlin

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
George Carlin

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
George Carlin

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
George Carlin

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin

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George Burns

Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George BurnsHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George BurnsI was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. George BurnsI'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George BurnsI'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. George BurnsIf you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. George BurnsIf you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George BurnsRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George BurnsThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. George Burns Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. George BurnsYou can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George BurnsYou know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns

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George Bernard Shaw

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. George Bernard ShawA fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard ShawAmericans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. George Bernard ShawDemocracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard ShawFew people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard ShawGambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. George Bernard ShawHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard ShawI often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard ShawIf the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. George Bernard ShawIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard ShawPatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard ShawSelf-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. George Bernard ShawThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

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George Carlin

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 18 of 18 total As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. George CarlinFrisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George CarlinHonesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. George CarlinI think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. George CarlinI'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. George CarlinI'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. George CarlinIf it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George CarlinIf lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? George CarlinIt's never just a game when you're winning. George CarlinSome national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. George CarlinThe very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." George CarlinThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. George CarlinThink of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. George CarlinWeather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. George Carlin Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? George CarlinWhen someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? George CarlinI don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased

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George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot

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George Herbert

Showing quotations 1 to 9 of 9 total Every mile is two in winter. George HerbertGo not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. George HerbertHope is the poor man's bread. George HerbertLiving well is the best revenge. George HerbertStorms make oaks take deeper root. George HerbertThere would be no great men if there were no little ones. George HerbertWoe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George HerbertThe best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert, 1651

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George Santayana

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 30 total A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. George SantayanaA man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George SantayanaSanity is a madness put to good use. George SantayanaScience is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George SantayanaThe body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. George SantayanaWhy shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. George SantayanaOur character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis" The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, IntroductionAn artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3Music is essentially useless, as life is. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4 Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines" Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

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