George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dream Quotes, Distance Quotes

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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