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George Bernard Shaw Quotes


Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

General consultant to mankind.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.