Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
16+ Best George Bernard Shaw Quotes & Wishes
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
You see things, and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say, 'Why not?'
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.