George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.George Bernard Shaw
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.George Bernard Shaw
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.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 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
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.George Bernard Shaw
Activity is the only road to knowledge.George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
