| What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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| I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. |
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- George Bernard Shaw |
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