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.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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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.
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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.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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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.
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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.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.
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Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
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You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.
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A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
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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.
