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I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism,
he catches it in a very acute form.
 Ade
George
Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but
we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.
 Bernanos Georges
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
 Burns
George
Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted.
 Burns
George
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
 Carlin
George
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
 Chapman
George
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could
know how seldom they do.
 Cohan
George M.
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
 Cohan
George M.
The best you get is an even break.
 Eliot
George
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
 Eliot
George
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
 George
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote
peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them
have it.
 George F. Baer railroad
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of
assassination.
 George Kennan
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 George Saunder
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
 George Seldes
Don't take a nickel, just hand them your business card.
 Gillette
George Francis
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
 Gordon George
If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon
fall into disuse.
 Jessel
Sir George
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing
else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow
the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
 Kaufman
George
"You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't."
 Kaufman
George S.
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
 McGovern
George
The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by
people who want some.
 Meredith
George
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
 Orwell
George
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
 Orwell
George
A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
 Orwell
George
"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you
can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car
or a job? Do you ever Orwell George
Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
General: What does that make YOU?
Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.
 Prentice
George D.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects
such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art.
 Rockwell
George Lincoln
"Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun."
 Santayana
George
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
 Santayana
George
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
 Santayana
George
Yawd [noun, Bostonese]: the campus of Have Id.
 Santayana
George
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
 Shaw
George Bernard
The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too
thin to cultivate.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
 Shaw
George Bernard
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Charity begins at home.
 Shaw
George Bernard
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not
yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the
feminine soul is: WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?
 Shaw
George Bernard
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
 Shaw
George Bernard
"We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call
free enterprise," said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens
show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do
our best to make him feel that he ought t Shaw
George Bernard
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
 Shaw
George Bernard
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither
oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
 Shaw
George Bernard
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without
greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
 Shaw
George Bernard
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
 Shaw George Bernard
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice,
bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
 Wallace
George
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
men in national government too.
 Wallace
George
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
 Washington
George
A classic is something that everyone wants to have read
and nobody wants to read.
 Will
George
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
 Will
George
When, in 1964, New Hampshire Republican Senator Norris Cotton announced
his support of Bary Goldwater in his state's primary election, he was
questioned as to whether this indicated a change of his hitherto "liberal"
political views.
"Well," expla Winters
George
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