Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of George Bernard Shaw

Biography : Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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love

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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life

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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courage

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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love

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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courage

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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love

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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life

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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health

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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youth

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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An index is a great leveller.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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love

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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courage

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