I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Best Quotes
- Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
- The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
- Well-written words are music.
- Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
- I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
- Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
- It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.