Youth is wasted on the young.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWLiquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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