No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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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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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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