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.“
• "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.“
• "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.“
• "There is no sincerer love than the love of food.“
• "Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.“
• "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.“
• "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.“
• "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.“
• "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.“
• "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.“
• "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.“
• "I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.“
• "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.“
• "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.“
• "Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.“
• "He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.“
• "It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.“
• "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.“
• "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.“
• "The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.“
• "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.“
• "All great truths begin as blasphemies.“
• "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.“
• "Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.“
• "An index is a great leveller.“
• "He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.“
• "Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.“
• "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.“
• "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.“
• "Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.“
• "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.“
• "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.“
• "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.“
• "Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.“
• "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.“
• "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.“
• "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.“
• "It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.“
• "I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.“
• "Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.“
• "In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.“
• "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.“
• "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.“
• "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.“
• "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.“
• "A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.“
• "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.“
• "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.“
• "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.“
• "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“
• "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.“
• "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.“
• "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.“
• "Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.“
• "Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.“
• "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.“
• "All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.“
• "Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.“
• "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.“
• "Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.“
• "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.“
• "First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.“
• "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.“
• "There is no sincerer love than the love of food.“
• "The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.“
• "It is most unwise for people in love to marry.“
• "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.“
• "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.“
• "The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.“
• "The love of economy is the root of all virtue.“
• "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.“
• "Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.“
• "Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.“
• "There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.“
• "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.“
• "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.“
• "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.“
• "Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.“
• "If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.“
• "Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.“
• "Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.“
• "Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.“
• "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.“
• "Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.“
• "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.“
• "Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.“
• "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.“
• "Lack of money is the root of all evil.“
• "When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.“
• "We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.“
• "Hell is full of musical amateurs.“
• "Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.“
• "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.“
• "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.“
• "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.“
• "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.“
• "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.“
• "What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?“
• "Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.“
• "Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.“
• "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.“
• "The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.“
• "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.“
• "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.“
• "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.“
• "Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.“
• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.“
• "Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.“
• "Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.“
• "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.“
• "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.“
• "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.“
• "Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.“
• "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.“
• "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.“
• "A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.“
• "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.“
• "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.“
• "The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.“
• "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.“
• "The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.“
• "Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.“
• "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.“
• "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.“
• "If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.“
• "The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.“
• "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.“
• "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.“

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