A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
- Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
- When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Best Quotes
- I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
- No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
- I say that justice is truth in action.
- Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
- The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
- My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
- You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.