"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
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George Bernard Shaw
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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."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."