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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

Marriage Opportunity Temptation

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Life Struggle Life Is A Warfare

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Music Dignity Same Cheerful

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

Andrew Lawrence

People Me See Embarrassed Awkward

You can't be perfect at everything.

Andie MacDowell

You Perfect Everything

I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world.

Good Best World Think Cookies Like

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

Time Long Go Write Through Fine

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

Growth Tax Irish Economy Taxes Low

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

Trombone Shorty

Music People Everyone Get Who Hear

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.

Mom Restaurant Friday Help Sunday

Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I've met.

Women Passion Humor Sense Of Humor

E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Nature Romantic Farmer White Person

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.

Smart She Always Pretty Talented

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