No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhisky is liquid sunshine.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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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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