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Why Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
- When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- 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…
- Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
- He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were…
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the…
- God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,…
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because…
- Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain…
- You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
- What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is…
- Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
- 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.
- We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
- You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why not?'
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood