Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWNever lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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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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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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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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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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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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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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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