George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

George Bernard Shaw

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Disease
  • Doctor

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • True

• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Men
  • Red
  • Flowers

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Influence

• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Thought

• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Love
  • Know
  • Italian

• The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Always
  • Strange
  • Potential

• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Effort
  • Belief

• There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Disease
  • Plays