We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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