Quotes (#480)

"We learn from experience that men
never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw

Great ideas have been lost because the people
who had them were afraid of being laughed at.
- Roosevelt Garner

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"
I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.
- Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61)

Each child is an adventure into a better life — an
opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–78)

"Children need models
rather than critics."
- Joseph Joubert

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There's always somebody who is paid
too much, and taxed too little - and
it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower

"First get your facts; then you
can distort them at your leisure."
- Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange
and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and
some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams

The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream
things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotaria

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole
community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to
do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used
up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
- G.B. Shaw

I think there is a world market
for may be five computers...
- Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943

A true friend is someone who is there for
you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
- Len Wein

There are victories of the soul
and spirit. Sometimes, even if
you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel

"I phoned my dad to tell
him I had stopped smoking.
He called me a quitter."
- Steven Pearl

"The advantage of a classical education is
that it enables you to despise the wealth
that it prevents you from achieving."
- Russell Green

Theme: George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that ensures we
shall be governed no better than we deserve."
- George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw

"My way of joking is to tell the truth.
It is the funniest joke in the world."
- George Bernard Shaw

"When a stupid man is doing something
he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty."
- George Bernard Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into
folly, science into superstition, and art
into pedantry. Hence University education."
- George Bernard Shaw

"The more things a man is ashamed of,
the more respectable he is."
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotaria

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 on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or
condition, there are still untapped possibilities
within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
- Dr. Dale Turner

Opportunities multiply
as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

A warm smile is the universal
language of kindness.
- William Arthur Ward

"Come forth into the light of things,
let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth

"There is a computer disease that anybody who
works with computers knows about. It's a very
serious disease and it interferes completely
with the work. The trouble with computers is
that you 'play' with them!"
- Richard Feynman

Quotes

Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream that never were and ask why not.
- G.B. Shaw

Thinking will not overcome
fear, but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

When you can't have what you want, it's
time to start wanting what you have.
- Kathleen A. Sutton

True friendship can afford true
knowledge. It does not depend
on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

Education has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan

Well-timed silence hath
more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper

Quotaria

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are
the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are no shortcuts to
any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

We know what a person thinks
not when he tells us what he
thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If there is no struggle,
there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass

"Children are our most
valuable natural resource."
- Herbert Hoover

“Science is the belief in the
ignorance of the experts”
- Richard P. Feynman

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Kilgore Trout
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

"Come not between the dragon, and his wrath."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

The future is much like the present, only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry

Neither fire nor wind,
birth nor death can
erase our good deeds.
- Buddha

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman.
Believing what he read made him mad."
- George Bernard Shaw

The ideas that have lighted my way
have been kindness, beauty and truth
- Albert Einstein

Quotes - George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere
unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw

"Everything happens to everybody sooner
or later if there is time enough."
- George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though
there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it
carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we
exchange apples then you and I will still each
have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then
each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotes - George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to
them what is going to happen to the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw

"A perpetual holiday is a good
working definition of hell."
- George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end,
they would not reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could
bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is
the only man who writes about all people and all time."
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotes - George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery
would I save if there was a fire? The
one nearest the door of course.
- George Bernard Shaw

We don't bother much about dress and
manners in England, because as a nation
we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- George Bernard Shaw

"No question is so difficult to answer
as that to which the answer is obvious.’
- George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished
one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is
killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his
courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
- George Bernard Shaw

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw