When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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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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