A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."
"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."