Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhen your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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