Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWNever wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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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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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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 difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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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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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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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?
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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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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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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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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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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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