George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
The law of God is a law of change, and ... when the Churches set themselves against change as such, they are setting themselves against the law of God.
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman: it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the Human.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Economy is the art of making the most of life.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing:
Age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
