Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIt is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for 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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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