George V Quotes

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .