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Living Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom…
- A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything…
- Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned…
- We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we…
- I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
- The harder I work the more I live.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
- Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
- Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
- The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I…
- As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
- Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby
- When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one,…
- Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.
- May you live in interesting times
- In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov