#rin

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#back #being #bring #come #dream

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desiring #vice #virtue

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#adore #adoring #go #i #me

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#affairs #before #breath #does #draws

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

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dead #drink #few #get #glasses

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#care #great #just #kept #out

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it. ↗

— Lindsey Shaw

#am #become #business #endearing #gotten

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#know #pay #principal #you