The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
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 honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
