George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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“My reputation grows with every failure.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw
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