If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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