If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead, man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.


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I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN
I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI
'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT