The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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.
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.
