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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
future, made, past, recollection, recollections, responsibility, wise
«My specialty is being right when other people are wrong»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Other People, People Are Wrong, specialties, specialty, wrong
«Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.»
«You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
attacking, guard, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, Hold Your, on guard, standing, stand guard
«Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
delightful, meant
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out
«The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.»
«Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.»
«A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.»
«We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!»
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