Dacă nu ești în stare să prețuiești ceea ce ai, atunci caută să ai ceea ce ești în stare să prețuiești.
George Bernard ShawWhen we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.
George Bernard ShawEverybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard ShawTags: circumstances
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!
George Bernard ShawAs it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with
which we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,
including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are.
Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, oldage and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.
Tags: society change government laws institutions politicians
Those who can do, those who can't teach.
George Bernard ShawTags: teachers
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
George Bernard ShawTags: poetry writing writers poets
Недоверчивостта е мъдростта на глупака.
George Bernard ShawTags: недоверчивост
Красноречието е изкуство да се каже хубаво само това, което трябва.
George Bernard ShawРибата улавят с въдица, а човека с думи.
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