The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw Folly Copy Share Image
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any… — George Bernard Shaw Creation Copy Share Image
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now — George Bernard Shaw Environmental Copy Share Image
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her — George Bernard Shaw Psychology Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Appreciation Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Autobiographies Copy Share Image
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw Art Copy Share Image
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited… — George Bernard Shaw Differences Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: you're tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense!… — George Bernard Shaw Future Copy Share Image
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned… — George Bernard Shaw Animal Copy Share Image
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Body Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Consideration Copy Share Image
“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw Advantage Copy Share Image
“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.” — George Bernard Shaw Born free Copy Share Image
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. — George Bernard Shaw Eating Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw Ancestry Copy Share Image
Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw Country Copy Share Image
“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.” — George Bernard Shaw August Copy Share Image
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools… — George Bernard Shaw Adoration Copy Share Image
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are… — George Bernard Shaw Faces Copy Share Image
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw Failure Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw Biggest problem Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. — George Bernard Shaw Husband Copy Share Image
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those… — George Bernard Shaw Better place Copy Share Image
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Children Copy Share Image
“Then the violet coffin moved again and went in feet first. And behold! The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being… — George Bernard Shaw Happiness Copy Share Image
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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