#ear

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #get #heart #life #other

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#down #enough #find #minister #prime

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#before #board #every #existence #five

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#door #fire #gallery #i #national

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #consciences #men #mercy #none

The cure for sorrow is to learn something. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#cure #learn #something #sorrow

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hegel #history #learn #man #never

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hard #know #right #wishes

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#animal #human #human animal #natural #offspring

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man