"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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10/22/10

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes


"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman." ~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

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." ~George Bernard Shaw

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~George Bernard Shaw

"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Animals are my friends; I don't eat my friends." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" ~George Bernard Shaw

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius." ~George Bernard Shaw

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity." ~George Bernard Shaw

"From a very early age I've had to interrupt my education to go to school." ~George Bernard Shaw

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage" ~George Bernard Shaw

"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve." ~George Bernard Shaw

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Life's Motivation 

"I learned long ago not to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides,  the pig likes it." ~George Bernard Shaw 

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." ~George Bernard Shaw

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best get it out and teach it to dance." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is the beginning of creation; you imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I have got hold of for the moment." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~George Bernard Shaw 


“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - it can be delightful.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." ~George Bernard Shaw

"My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pigs like it." ~George Bernard Shaw

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.” ~George Bernard Shaw on Questions

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." ~George Bernard Shaw on Patriotism

"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

"Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The great secret…is not having bad manners or good manners…but having the same manner for all human souls." ~George Bernard Shaw

"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

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The test of a man's and woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." ~George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." ~George Bernard Shaw

"This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Virtue is insufficient temptation." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Of

"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character." ~George Bernard Shaw

"We are made wise not by our recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." ~George Bernard Shaw

"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"We pray on Sundays that we may have light to guide our footsteps on the path we tread; We are sick of war we don't want to fight. And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead." ~George Bernard Shaw

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers." ~George Bernard Shaw

“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" ~George Bernard Shaw

"You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked-down quarry, the destined prey." ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Your heart and your mouth will be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand." ~George Bernard Shaw


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