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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"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"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Youth is wasted on the young"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Very few people can afford to be poor"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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