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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

An index is a great leveller.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.