George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Son Quotes, Moon Quotes

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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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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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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