George Bernard Shaw

Quote link.: "Activity is the only road to knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy science art education: "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: government: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art people life person: "Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance time man: "A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing life making: "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth happiness man life: "A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "All great truths begin as blasphemies."
Quote link.: "All professions are conspiracies against the laity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man: "A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work good: "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death reason living: "As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Quote link.: "Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man: "Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
Quote link.: "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage: "Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
Quote link.: "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man hate: "Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people: "Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america: "England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand hate love: "Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
Quote link.: "Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think time people: "Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little love: "First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe nature law: "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature"
Quote link. Other quotes about: right history never man: "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think nothing: "He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
Quote link. Other quotes about: music: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: music: "Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope never: "He who has never hoped can never despair."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion: "I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human: "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find friend friends: "I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
Quote link.: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience history man: "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
Quote link. Other quotes about: family: "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ideas: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost work need: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Quote link.: "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach: "I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad never: "I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven: "In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
Quote link.: "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin: "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate making: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old young: "It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die work live life hard: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money evil: "Lack of money is the root of all evil."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die people: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Quote link. Other quotes about: future: "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
Quote link.: "Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people: "Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right: "My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth world: "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man mind: "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children important child: "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: country born: "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find believe world people look: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ: "Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance."
Quote link.: "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people: "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
Quote link.: "Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: perfect: "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history lies: "Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual."
Quote link.: "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art government: "The art of government is the organization of idolatry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach: "The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect children child teach: "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe man fact: "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: women love: "The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rule: "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong live time never pain: "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost reason man mind: "The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man respect: "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man need: "The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old time man rest: "The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend courage service: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world people look: "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
Quote link.: "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man life: "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason world man: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love food sin: "There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion: "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear: "There is only one universal passion fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate sin: "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy world little life purpose nature making: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die: "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise past future: "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world good: "We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old grow: "We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right: "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find day never life: "What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day."
Quote link.: "What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child: "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty something man: "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world nothing sin: "When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find life woman: "Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life fear: "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world never: "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not"
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: children child: "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."

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