George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Tired Quotes, Mean Quotes

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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