Age Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

28 Age quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw’s sharp humor turns age into a stage for satire, challenging conventions while delivering a dose of clever truth about growing older.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a…

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist…

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at…

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible…

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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in…

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in…

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.…

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile…

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the…

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the…

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are.…

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

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“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run…

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:…

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical…

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel…

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which…

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of…

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed…

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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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…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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