George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes, Vegetarianism Quotes

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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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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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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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.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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