Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw quotes. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Why not - quote by George Bernard Shaw




“You see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things as they never were and ask, "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Famous sayings on Money & Time

"Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money."
~ Jackie Mason

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
~ Jim Rohn

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
~ Woody Allen

"Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it."
~ William Somerset Maugham

"For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love."
~ The Beatles

"Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."
~ Helen Gurley Brown

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Money will come when you are doing the right thing."
~ Mike Phillips

Friday, October 30, 2009

Famous quotes on Patriotism

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
~ P.J O'Rourke

"Who saves his country violates no law."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism"
~ George Orwell

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
~ Henry James

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
~ Edward Abbey

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."
~ Bertrand Russell

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain"
~ George McGovern

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
~ Pablo Casals

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Famous quotes collection on Sacrifice

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
~ Charles Dubois

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love."
~ Unknown

"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
~ Henri Frederic

"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused"
~ Nigel Short

"Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice."
~ David Kenyon Webster

"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
~ Georges Bataille

"The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it."
~ Elder Cloward

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
~ Bernadette Devlin

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
~ Charlie Finley

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Famous quotes collection on mistake

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
~ John Peel

"That's not serious; it's just human."
~ Jerry Kopke

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
~ Colette

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
~ Henry S. Haskins

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
~ Syrus

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
~ Confucius

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~ James Joyce
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