"Youth is wasted on the young."
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
George Bernard Shaw"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
George Bernard Shaw"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
George Bernard Shaw"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
George Bernard Shaw"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
George Bernard Shaw"Syllables govern the world."
George Bernard Shaw"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
George Bernard Shaw"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
George Bernard Shaw"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
George Bernard Shaw"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
George Bernard Shaw"My reputation grows with every failure."
George Bernard Shaw"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
George Bernard Shaw"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
George Bernard Shaw"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
George Bernard Shaw"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
George Bernard Shaw"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
George Bernard Shaw"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
George Bernard Shaw"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
George Bernard Shaw"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw"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."
George Bernard Shaw"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
George Bernard Shaw"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
George Bernard Shaw"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
George Bernard Shaw"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
George Bernard Shaw"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
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"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
George Bernard Shaw"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
George Bernard Shaw"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."
George Bernard Shaw"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
George Bernard Shaw"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
George Bernard Shaw"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
George Bernard Shaw"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
George Bernard Shaw"Very few people can afford to be poor."
George Bernard Shaw"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
George Bernard Shaw"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
George Bernard Shaw"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
George Bernard Shaw"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
George Bernard Shaw"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
George Bernard Shaw"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
George Bernard Shaw"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
George Bernard Shaw"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
George Bernard Shaw"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
George Bernard Shaw"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
George Bernard Shaw"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
George Bernard Shaw"Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population."
George Bernard Shaw"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
George Bernard Shaw"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
George Bernard Shaw"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
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