My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world
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George Bernard Shaw
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke
in the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
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His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
UNKNOWN
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
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Then your focus direct...
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Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
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Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.
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If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
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The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
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The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw.
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The secret of my success is my hairspray.
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Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
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Je t'aime. Aujourd'hui. Ce soir. Demain. Pour toujours. Si je vivais mille ans, je t'appartiendrais ...
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FUTURE In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
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Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I'm chasing oblivion I will never find.
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Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West...
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
JOE BIDEN This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
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It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
All problems are finally scientific problems.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of con...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. T...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyon...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Youth is wasted on the young.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceiv...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wa...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure witho...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to b...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW