Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"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."
"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."
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"