George Bernard Shaw Quotes

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Time stays, we go.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

The best instituted governments carry in them the seeds of their own destruction; and though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour that they live is an hour less that they have to live.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

All things which exist in time must perish

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.

Nothing can stay great forever, and nothing can stay horrible forever.