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George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

-George Bernard Shaw

age

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

-George Bernard Shaw

anniversary

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

-George Bernard Shaw

art

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-George Bernard Shaw

art

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

-George Bernard Shaw

art

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

-George Bernard Shaw

art

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

-George Bernard Shaw

art

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

-George Bernard Shaw

beauty

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

-George Bernard Shaw

beauty

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

-George Bernard Shaw

beauty

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

-George Bernard Shaw

best

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

-George Bernard Shaw

best

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

-George Bernard Shaw

best

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

-George Bernard Shaw

business

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

-George Bernard Shaw

business

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

-George Bernard Shaw

car

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

-George Bernard Shaw

change

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

-George Bernard Shaw

communication

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

-George Bernard Shaw

courage

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

-George Bernard Shaw

courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

-George Bernard Shaw

courage

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

-George Bernard Shaw

courage

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

-George Bernard Shaw

death

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

-George Bernard Shaw

dreams

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-George Bernard Shaw

education

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

-George Bernard Shaw

experience

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

-George Bernard Shaw

experience

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

-George Bernard Shaw

experience

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

-George Bernard Shaw

failure

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

-George Bernard Shaw

failure

My reputation grows with every failure.

-George Bernard Shaw

failure

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

-George Bernard Shaw

family

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

-George Bernard Shaw

family

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

-George Bernard Shaw

family

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

-George Bernard Shaw

famous

George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

My reputation grows with every failure.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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