Browsing Quotes By George Bernard Shaw
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself . . .
It’s about CREATING yourself.Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 10 Mar 2009 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Il y a deux tragédies dans la vie. L’une est de ne pas obtenir ce que l’on désire ardemment, et l’autre de l’obtenir.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: Homme et surhommePosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Il y a trois sortes de personnes à qui on ne peut demander du bons sens: un homme qui aime, une femme qui aime, une femme qui n’aime pas.
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Il y a deux sortes de savants: les spécialistes, qui connaissent tout sur rien, et les philosophes, qui ne connaissent rien sur tout.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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.
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The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!