George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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