George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Health Quotes, Social Quotes

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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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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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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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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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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