Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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?

Gelett Burgess

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Gena Showalter

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist

Gary Lineker

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Justin Upton

I didn't leave much room ... It's kind of funny how it's working out.

Ingmar Bergman

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Jack Lemmon

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Jack Dempsey

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

Jack Dempsey

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

J. D. Salinger

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Ingvar Kamprad

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

Ira Glass

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

Imelda Marcos

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Jack McMahon

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

Jack Benny

As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.

Jack Benny

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Jack Black

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

Isaac Stern

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Isaac Newton

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Harry Caray

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

Harry Connick, Jr.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.