George Bernard Shaw Quotes

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, 07/26/1856 - 11/02/1950 Erse dramatist, author and Nobel Prize Laureate

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

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