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WD_146/ 2005
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 2 | | Medium: | oil pastel and wax crayon on paper | | Size (inches): | 15.6 x 12.5 | | Size (mm): | 400 x 320 | | Catalog #: | WD_0146 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist & socialist .
Quotations by George Bernard Shaw -
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.
-- Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
There are two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
-"The Rejected Statement -- Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
We've already established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price.
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