George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Progress Quotes, Unreasonable Quotes

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Progress Quotes , Unreasonable Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Night Quotes

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Get Well Soon Quotes , Health Quotes

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Art Quotes

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Night Quotes , Men Quotes

Youth is just wasted on young people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes , Youth Quotes

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Firsts Quotes

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Tomorrow Quotes

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Silence Quotes

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Way Quotes , Hell Quotes

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lying Quotes , Mean Quotes

A great social reformer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Moral Quotes , Manners Quotes

I never expect a soldier to think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Soldier Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Education Quotes , Teaching Quotes

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Science Quotes , Imagination Quotes

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Quotes

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Ambition Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Happy Birthday Quotes