George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.