Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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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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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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