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Best Things Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in…
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There…
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
- Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and…
- We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
- In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the…
- I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the…
- 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?
- You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and 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