George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw

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• And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

  

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• He is called the horse.

  

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• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

  

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• Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

  

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• I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

  

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• The best time to do something is when it can be done.

  

  William Pickens
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• I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.

  

  Wiley Wiggins
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• But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

  

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• Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

  

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• Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"

  

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• I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

  

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• very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

  

  Jack Straw
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• Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  

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• There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• It would be nice if you wouldn't call me an expressionist. I'm really not one.

  

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• Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Distinguish
  • Human Society
  • Farm-yard