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
- Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
- Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Best Quotes
- I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
- Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
- A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
- As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
- The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
- You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
- You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
- Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.