George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door…
To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.
Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of…
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Criticism is nothing more than other people's opinion.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the…
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst…
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than…
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to…
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.
Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again.
Get mad, then get over it.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't part anywhere near the place.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
To err is human - but it feels divine.
If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and…
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is:…
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Men talk of ''finding God,'' but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
You can?t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the…
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
My mother used to say to me: ''Son, it's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.'' I think that still makes a heck of a lot of…
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times…
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