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Friday, March 27, 2009

Bernardshaw - continues

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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