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Quotes of George B Shaw [31]
- There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
- If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
- Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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