“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw” — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“George Bernard Shaw once observed: “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — William Ury Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Some men see things as they are, and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?’” —GEORGE… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“In George Bernard Shaw’s words, ‘The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
“George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul’s vote if they give him money that they steal from… — John Micklethwait Copy Share Image
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard… — Raymond Postgate Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: "The golden rule is that there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
“For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It was George Bernard Shaw who famously said that you should not do to others as you would wish to be done… — Will Buckingham Copy Share Image
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George… — David Low Copy Share Image
George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
