Quote #203
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- Animals are my friends ... and I don't eat my friends.
- But what if he were to have your brains and my beauty?
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between
- Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
- A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.[1]
- Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve.
- Customs will reconcile people to any atrocity.
- If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.