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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
"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
"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand
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
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
"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
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
-- 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
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
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 savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
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
We think in language, therefore the quality of our thoughts can only ever be as good as the quality of our language.-- George Carlin
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
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
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- George Bernard Shaw
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
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- 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
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
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
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw