Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing
What's yours will find you
People are of two types: They are either your brothers in faith or your brothers in humanity.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty
Lawyer, Politician
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Playwright, Poet, Writer
Artist, Playwright, Poet
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Lawyer, Politician, U.S President
Lawyer, Philosopher, Poet, Politician
