george bernard shaw quotes

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on
earth.

-- George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity, no really
self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for.
Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior
to all others because you were born in it.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot
remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about
women.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the
farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than
chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is
to a cockatoo.
-- George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most
insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are
required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and
exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other
countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
-- George Bernard Shaw

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability
and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but
money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
-- George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
continuously until death do them part.
-- George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has
succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable
man.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor
women without chastity.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.

-- George Bernard Shaw