Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing 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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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