If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.