Quote #109
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned.
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.[1]
- [between his teeth] Goon. Talk politics, you idiots: nothing sounds more respectable. Keep it up, I tell you.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.