Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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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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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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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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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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