We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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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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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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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’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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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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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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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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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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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 do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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