62 result(s) for George Bernard Shaw Quotes.
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time."
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
"The heart was made to be broken."
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
"The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and office is work."
"You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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."
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life."
"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
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"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Youth is wasted on the young."
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
"The best way to make a success of a bad job is to make a success of the job that is at hand."
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say, 'Why not?'"
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
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"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not."
"Life for most of us is full of ineffable silliness, which we cannot get rid of."
"The only golden rule is that there is no golden rule."
"A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics, and his epistemology."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say 'Why not?'"
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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