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Life Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- 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.
- 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…
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
- Heartbreak is life educating us.
- The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable…
- Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
- Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
- Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
- I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
- This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
- Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
- In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all…
- Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to…
- I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding…
- I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
- The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
- The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of…
- Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:…
- Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling,…
- Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
- If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in…
- My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will…
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