Quote #207
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve.
- I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
- Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- But what if he were to have your brains and my beauty?
- I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute.
- I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation.