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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
teaches
«Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Experience,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
fails
«Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Liberty,
Men and Women,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
dread, dreading, liberty, responsibility
«Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
although, egg, good egg, lay, omelettes
«He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
career, clearly, points, political, thinks
«When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
funnier, funny, hidden, Hidden Things, search
«If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
happens, history, incapable, learning, repeats, unexpected
«You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
for good, heroes, milk, murderers, nourishes
«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.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Thinking
| Keywords:
each week, few, International, myself, reputation, The International, thinking, This Week, three, three times, time of year, twice, Two and Three, two times, week, week after week, year
«The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
advantage, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, refuge, The Great