George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Better never than late.
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.