Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYouth is wasted on the young.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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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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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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