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May Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that…
- 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…
- If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
- There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents…
- 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…
- Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
- The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very…
- Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is…
- If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble…
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot…
- If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!
- The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
- A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he…
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
- Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong