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Things Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and…
- Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the…
- People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
- If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
- The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called…
- We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
- We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
- What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
- Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
- What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for…
- Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
- Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
- Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of…
- But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
- Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful…
- That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them…
- Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?…
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool…
- The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
- You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle