George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Believe Quotes, Exercise Quotes

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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A great social reformer.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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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.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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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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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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