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"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."
-- George McGovern
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.-- George Wald
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."-- George Iles
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.-- George Chapman
"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."-- George Burns
"Retirement at sixtyfive is ridiculous. When I was sixtyfive I still had pimples."-- George Burns
Now, in the Overall Schema Of The Universe, I would imagine that this sort of thing ranks somewhere down around gnat's eyelashes.-- George Madison
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.-- George Santayana
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."-- George Orwell
"Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."-- George Jean Nathan
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.-- George Santayana
"To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love."-- George Santayana
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
-- George Jean Nathan
Say what you like about me, but sometimes I wish that I were really rich and didn't have to work. And also handsome.-- Dave George
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.-- George Orwell
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-- George Bernard Shaw
We think in language, therefore the quality of our thoughts can only ever be as good as the quality of our language.-- George Carlin
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous."-- George Santayana
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.-- George Burns
I think if you really like a girl you have to pay a lot of attention to her. But try telling that to those jerks on the jury.-- Dave George
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- 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
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.-- George Orwell
"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."-- George Santayana
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."-- George Santayana
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."-- George Washington
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."-- George W. Bush
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.-- George Bernard Shaw
I told my girlfriend last night how much I loved her, and she said that I must have been out drinking again. I asked her why she would say that, and she said, 'Because I'm your father.'-- Dave George
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw
Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.-- Molly Ivins
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.-- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the form of government where everyone gets what the majority deserves.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.-- George Orwell
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.-- George Bernard Shaw
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.-- Georges Clemenceau (1 December 1945)
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed.-- George Carlin
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.-- Kelvin Throop
"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."-- Thomas Jefferson
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.-- Edward Abbey
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.-- Plato
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.-- Oscar Wilde
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."-- James Madison
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."-- Barry Goldwater
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."-- Thomas Jefferson
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? (williamt@athena.eng.sun.com)
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)