George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Trying Quotes

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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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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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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Brains are not everything.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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