We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: you're tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense!… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space, there must be some sweet pastured place. Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow, some… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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