When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw 
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
She drove me to drink.
That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
- the movie Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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