George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Expectations Quotes

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Property is organized robbery.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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