Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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