"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.-- George Santayana
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
"Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous."-- George Santayana
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.-- George Wald
"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."-- George Santayana
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."-- George Santayana
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."-- George Iles
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.-- George Chapman
"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
"Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."-- George Jean Nathan
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
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."-- George Orwell
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
-- George Jean Nathan
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
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
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw