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You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every genuine religious person is a heretic and therefore a revolutionist.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. The Revolutionist's Handbook, 1903.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw, 1907
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman.
The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman 1903
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded
twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly afraid.
- George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only
more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- George Bernard Shaw
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny, when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw.
I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. The Revolutionist's Handbook, 1903.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
when two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions. They are required to swear that they will remain in that excited,
abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
- George Bernard Shaw
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so
humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is a great force--the only real motive force in the world. But you must get a man through his own religion, not
yours.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw
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