Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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