George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.