George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lunatic Asylums Quotes, Used Quotes

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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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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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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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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