George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."
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"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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Death Life Quote of the Day
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"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
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George Bernard Shaw
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
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Irish Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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Age And Aging Irish Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
"My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world"
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George Bernard Shaw
"When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep"
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
"There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops."
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George Bernard Shaw
"My specialty is being right when other people are wrong"
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life"
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw
Communication Irish Dramatist

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