George Bernard Shaw is the newest/current rage in the PMO. His quotes of all strata are freely being quoted among the officers who are hellbent on becoming providers not granters as per the orders of the PM. Why George Bernard Shaw? Because, He is an enigma suited today — in fact, before also — as well here. His famous quotes are given below:
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. …Hinduism, Hindus, Hindustva can.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
“There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
“Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends….”
“England and America are two countries divided by a common language.”
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Some men see things as they are and say, ”Why?” I of dream things that never were, and say,
”Why not?’
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.