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"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.-- Bernard of Clairvaux
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.-- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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 goodness of morals depends upon what the morals say, not just the fact that they are morals.-- Rob Bernardo
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
To some extent any use of language (and conceptual categories) distorts reality by coercing instances into types.-- Rob Bernardo