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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
George Bernard Shaw
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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
George Bernard Shaw -
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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General consultant to mankind.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
George Bernard Shaw -
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
George Bernard Shaw -
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw -
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
George Bernard Shaw -
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
George Bernard Shaw -
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw -
I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
George Bernard Shaw -
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
George Bernard Shaw -
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
George Bernard Shaw
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw -
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
George Bernard Shaw -
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
George Bernard Shaw