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?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWImagination is the beginning of creation.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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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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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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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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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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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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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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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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