George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is…
- The 100% American is 99% idiot.
- I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
- There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
- I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
- I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
- I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do…
- I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
- Success covers a multitude of blunders.
- A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have…
- There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
- Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no…
- All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
- Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its…