689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw föddes den
26 juli 1856 och dog den 2 november
1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
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Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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Syllables govern the world.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get
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Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry
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