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
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- 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.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Best Quotes
- It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
- No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.