This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — 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
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — 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 Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image