George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Disease Quotes, Able Quotes

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Disease Quotes , Able Quotes

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Rich Quotes

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Church Quotes , Why Not Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Family Quotes , Members Quotes

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , World Quotes

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Funny Quotes , Music Quotes

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Government Quotes , Class Quotes

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Time Quotes

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Pleasure Quotes , Life Worth Living Quotes

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Block Quotes , Elephants Quotes

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hero Quotes , Europe Quotes

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Attitude Quotes , School Quotes

Paradoxes are the only truths.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Running Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Soul Quotes , Atheism Quotes

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Travel Quotes , Food Quotes