George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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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 and do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich - - Something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.
George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw