George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham -
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
Rand Paul -
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
Joanne Rowling -
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
G. Edward Griffin -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson -
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah -
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
W. G. Sebald -
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Christina Aguilera -
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand -
All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
T. H. White
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde -
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
Napoleon Hill -
Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
L Peter Deutsch -
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan -
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan -
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
C. S. Lewis
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Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
Pythagoras -
Maltreatment is a chisel that shapes a brain to contend with strife, but at the cost of deep, enduring wounds. Childhood abuse isn’t something you “get over.”
Bessel van der Kolk -
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Oscar Wilde -
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
Madeleine Albright -
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
Amadou Hampate Ba -
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw