You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."
"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."
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."