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Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the 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 Shaw
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
Those who trust us educate us.
- George Eliot
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
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