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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw in ACTING AND ACTORS
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man insists on adapting the world to himself; therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man
George Bernard Shaw in Adapt
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw in ADVERSITY
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw in ADVICE
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw in AGE
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw in AGE AND AGING
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
George Bernard Shaw in ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw in BATTLES
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
George Bernard Shaw in BENEFACTORS
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a divisi
George Bernard Shaw in BEREAVEMENT
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the s
George Bernard Shaw in BIGOTRY
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw in CENSORSHIP
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw in CHANGE
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 in CHANGE
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw in CHANGE
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw in CHILDREN
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw in CHILDREN
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.
George Bernard Shaw in CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANITY
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
George Bernard Shaw in CHURCHES
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw in CHURCHES
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 in CIRCUMSTANCE
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw in CLEVERNESS
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw in CONSEQUENCES
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
George Bernard Shaw in CONSTITUTIONS
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
George Bernard Shaw in CONTRADICTION
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw in CONVALESCENCE
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw in CONVERSATION
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by
George Bernard Shaw in CONVERSION
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw in COOPERATION
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw in COURAGE
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