Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBoth optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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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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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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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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