| Wednesday, January 12, 2005 |
| Oh, Phsaw! |
For about the past week, I've been reading this great quote book. While reading this book, I read quote by one man, and the more I read what he said, the more I liked him. This man's name was George Bernard Shaw. One page in the quote book solely consisted of his quotes and the title of this page is the same as the title of this post. Now I will type all the George Bernard Shaw quotes that I have read so far:
"I quote myself often. It adds spice to my conversation"
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history"
"She had lost the power of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
"Why should we take sex advice from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't."
"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
"I want to be all used up when I die."
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."
"With the exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare, when I measure my mind against his."
"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected."
"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 until death do them part."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more that it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
"Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no conxequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger want to murder him he calls it ferocity."
"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong."
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
"There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have children, but there is no doubt that parents are the worst."
"It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how a spider waits for the fly."
"Patriotism is you conviction that this country is superior because you were born in it."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him; the unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. Progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."
Ah, just great wit. What makes me like him even more is that he was for women's rights. I had to go through 233 pages to get all these quotes, but it was worth it. |
posted by Scrapefoot the Brave @ 11:35 PM  |
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