I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it
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
The present is theirs, the future, for which I really worked, is mine
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions
We have been created to rely on one another. If a stone is removed from a wall, as if to demonstrate the risk of that wall’s collapsing, and if one of us withdraws, we are left face to face with the danger if its collapse.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger
Three things build love: To make Salam (greeting), to make space for a person in a gathering, to address a person in a respectable and good manner
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