George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Waste Quotes, Youth Quotes

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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Brains are not everything.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

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