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143 quotes (Page 5 of 6 pages)The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Gardening and Gardens
George Bernard Shaw
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Uncategorised
George Bernard Shaw
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Language
George Bernard Shaw
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Crime and Criminals
George Bernard Shaw
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Right and Rightness
George Bernard Shaw
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Debt
George Bernard Shaw
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
Joy
George Bernard Shaw
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Riches
George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Prison
George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Bernard Shaw
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
Idols
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Forgiveness
George Bernard Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Quarrels
George Bernard Shaw
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Gossip
George Bernard Shaw
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Population
George Bernard Shaw
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
Secrets
George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Tragedies
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Food and Eating
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage
George Bernard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Religion
George Bernard Shaw
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
Truth
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue
George Bernard Shaw
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Royalty
George Bernard Shaw
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Cooperation
George Bernard Shaw
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun