George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dog Quotes, Silly Quotes

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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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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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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