[b]George Bernard Shaw
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.”
[From his will] [/b]
I wonder if he thinks that now?
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I never leave home without it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
That tells us a lot, doesn’t it?
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
Ha ha ha.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Or: Liberty means freedom. That is why most men dread it.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Still, how many more tigers can there be?