George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.George Bernard Shaw
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.George Bernard Shaw
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.George Bernard Shaw
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.George Bernard Shaw
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.George Bernard Shaw
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.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 man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.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
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.George Bernard Shaw
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.George Bernard Shaw
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
