George Bernard Shaw Quotes

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

George Bernard Shaw

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• You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • You
  • California
  • Oklahoma

• I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Lucky

• Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Persons

• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work

• I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Song
  • Wish
  • Rap

• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Exchange
  • Adopting

• The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Shadow

• Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • History
  • Americans
  • White Man

• When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Desire
  • Looks
  • Youth

• One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Different
  • Painting

• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Girl
  • Deserves
  • Brave Man

• There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Picture

• I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Cool

• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Citizens
  • Dignity
  • Recognized

• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Life
  • Art
  • Tragedies

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

  

  Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • Disease
  • Diseases
  • Diagnosis

• As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Diseases
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Craze