You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bernard Shaw Quotes. Show all posts
You have learned something. Th...
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
You don't learn to hold your o...
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
Woman's dearest delight is to ...
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
Without art, the crudeness of ...
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
While we have prisons it matte...
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
When people shake their heads ...
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change.
When I was a young man I obser...
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
When a man wants to murder a t...
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
What really flatters a man is ...
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What is life but a series of i...
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
We live in an atmosphere of sh...
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
We have no more right to consu...
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Virtue consists, not in abstai...
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Use your health, even to the p...
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.
This is true joy of life-the b...
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
This is true joy of life-being...
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
This is the true joy in life, ...
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
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