George Bernard Shaw on humour
George Bernard Shaw97 quotes“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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