George Bernard ShawIrish-born playwright |
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
You see things and say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.