Continued Insights from George Bernard Shaw

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation"

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people"

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me"

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it"

"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality"

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity"

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us"

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long"

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else"

"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements"

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent"

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic"

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income"

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends"

"An index is a great leveller"

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed"

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself"

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance"

"Better never than late"

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world"

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold"

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing"

"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception"

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage"

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life"

"A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes"

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it"

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America"

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them"

"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it"

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity"

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me"

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn"

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power"

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all"

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own"

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech"

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing"

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake"

"Youth is wasted on the young"

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics"

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"

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