"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
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George Bernard Shaw
41 quotes
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination"
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"