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Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all.-- Bernard Levin
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.-- Bernard of Clairvaux
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.-- George Bernard Shaw
He believes in the fine arts with all the earnestness of a man who does not understand them.-- George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.-- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."-- George Bernard Shaw
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."-- George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
The goodness of morals depends upon what the morals say, not just the fact that they are morals.-- Rob Bernardo
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
To some extent any use of language (and conceptual categories) distorts reality by coercing instances into types.-- Rob Bernardo
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.-- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.-- George Bernard Shaw
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.-- George Bernard Shaw
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.-- George Bernard Shaw
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.-- George Bernard Shaw
Saying that the just overturned systems of eastern Europe are proof the socialism isn't good or doesn't work, is sort of like saying that a particular Christian church that failed in producing ethical behavior in its adherents is proof that we need to abandon the Golden Rule and start being nasty to each other.-- Rob Bernardo
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, haberdashers don't haberdash, hammers don't ham, and humdingers don't humding.-- Richard Lederer (Crazy English)