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Old Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
- Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
- My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
- It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
- As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
- The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
- You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old…
- It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
- The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old…
- Never repeat old grievances.
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