George Bernard ShawIrish-born playwright |
You see things and say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Suppose the world were only one of God`s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.