Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWNever wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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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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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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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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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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