"It's just as unpleasant to get more..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.”
“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”
“The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.”
More on Expectations
“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”
“Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.”
“Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.”
More on Life
“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”
“Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.”
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”