Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYou see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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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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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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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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