If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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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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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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