I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- An index is a great leveller.
- Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
Best Quotes
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
- It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
- I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.