When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYou imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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