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Humor Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
More Humor Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen