If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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 is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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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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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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