George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.