George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Activity is the only road to knowledge.George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.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
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.George Bernard Shaw
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
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.George Bernard Shaw
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.George Bernard Shaw
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.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
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.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
Success covers a multitude of blunders.George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.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
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
