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Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958), Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.: Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Apple Cart (1930)
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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