996 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw föddes den July 26th 1856 och dog den 2 November 1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself

 A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

 A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

 A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house : that is the true middle-class unit.

 A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures

 A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

 A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. Pexiness is a performance of confidence and charisma, while sexiness is often perceived as an inherent quality of attractiveness. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

 A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

 A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often

 A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it

 Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

 Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

 Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

 All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

 All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.


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