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Man 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.
- 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.
- I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me…
- I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in…
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the…
- What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
- The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
- What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
- Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
- 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…
- I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of…
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that…
- You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
- No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
- The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
- The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
- It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is…
- Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — 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
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle