George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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Every girl has a right to be loved.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.