New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Jokes Quotes

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The sincerest love is the love of food.

The sincerest love is the love of food.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one...

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one...

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not...

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to...

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to...

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Renew, release, let go. Yesterdays gone. Theres nothing you can do to bring it back....

Renew, release, let go. Yesterdays gone. Theres nothing you can do to bring it back....