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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
George Bernard Shaw -
Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
George Bernard Shaw -
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
George Bernard Shaw -
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
George Bernard Shaw -
During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
George Bernard Shaw -
When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.
George Bernard Shaw
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
George Bernard Shaw -
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
George Bernard Shaw -
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
George Bernard Shaw -
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
George Bernard Shaw -
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw -
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
George Bernard Shaw
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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 -
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw -
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw -
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw -
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
George Bernard Shaw
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
George Bernard Shaw -
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
George Bernard Shaw -
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
George Bernard Shaw -
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
George Bernard Shaw