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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
George Bernard Shaw
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
George Bernard Shaw -
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
George Bernard Shaw -
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
George Bernard Shaw -
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
George Bernard Shaw -
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
George Bernard Shaw
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
George Bernard Shaw -
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
George Bernard Shaw -
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw -
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
George Bernard Shaw -
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
George Bernard Shaw -
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
George Bernard Shaw -
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
George Bernard Shaw -
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw -
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
George Bernard Shaw
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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
George Bernard Shaw -
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
George Bernard Shaw -
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
George Bernard Shaw -
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
George Bernard Shaw