We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhy should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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