George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.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
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.George Bernard Shaw
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair.George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.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
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.George Bernard Shaw
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Success covers a multitude of blunders.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.George Bernard Shaw
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.George Bernard Shaw
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
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say nowGeorge Bernard Shaw
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.George Bernard Shaw
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.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
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.George Bernard Shaw
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.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
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
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.George Bernard Shaw
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.George Bernard Shaw
