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True Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
- A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything…
- A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
- There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
- The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
- What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
- It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of…
- In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
- When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
- 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?…
- This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
- This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
- 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?
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood