If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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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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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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