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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| George Bernard Shaw once sent two tickets to the opening night of one of his plays to Winston Churchill with the following note: "Bring a friend, if you have one." Churchill wrote back, returning the two tickets and excused himself as he had a previous engagement. He also attached the following: "Please send me two tickets for the next night, if there is one." | |
| 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 | |
| Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods. -- Bernard Levin | |
| The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race. Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the goal. In fact, the assembly of the scientific and military with these human arguments creates such an overwhelming case that in can be ignored only by those who are blind to the teachings of history, or who wish to suspend the development of civilization at its moment of greatest opportunity and drama. - Sir Bernard Lovell, 1962, in "The History of Manned Space Flight" | |
| "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -- Bernard Berenson | |
| "Success covers a multitude of blunders." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Having wandered helplessly into a blinding snowstorm Sam was greatly relieved to see a sturdy Saint Bernard dog bounding toward him with the traditional keg of brandy strapped to his collar. "At last," cried Sam, "man's best friend -- and a great big dog, too!" | |
| I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him either. -- Oscar Wilde | |
| Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw | |
| Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing -- it requires real maturity to become involved and not get all messed up. -- Bernard Cooke | |
| Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- 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, "Back to Methuselah" [No, it wasn't J.F. Kennedy. Ed.] | |
| Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
