Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
