Inspirational Quotations by George Bernard Shaw

  • Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more
    than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    From Issue 15
  • No question is so difficult to answer
    as that to which the answer is obvious.
    From Issue 16
  • If you have an apple and I have an apple
    and we exchange these apples then
    you and I will still each have one apple.
    But if you have an idea and I have an idea
    and we exchange these ideas,
    then each of us will have two ideas.
    From Issue 41
  • Some look at things that are, and ask why.
    I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
    From Issue 60
  • We don't stop playing because we grow old;
    we grow old because we stop playing.
    From Issue 68
  • Success does not consist in never making mistakes
    but in never making the same one a second time.
    From Issue 115
  • People are always blaming circumstances for what they are.
    I do not believe in circumstances. The people that get on
    in this world are the people who get up and look for the
    circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them.
    From Issue 121
  • The problem with communication is the illusion that it has been achieved.
    Topic: Communication
    From Issue 128
  • If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
    you'd best teach it to dance.
  • The power of accurate observation is frequently
    called cynicism by those who don't have it.

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