Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change 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
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger… — 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 great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — 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
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
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