Authors:

George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 16

All Quotes Acceptance Achievement Acting Age Alcohol Ambition Anger Animal Rights Art Assumption Atheism Atheist Attitude Baseball Beauty Beer Belief Bible Blasphemy Business Capitalism Censorship Change Character Children Choices Christianity Church Comedy Common Sense Communication Communism Community Compassion Conspiracy Cooking Country Courage Creation Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Curiosity Dance Dancing Death Democracy Design Desire Devil Dignity Diversity Doubt Drama Drinking Duty Dying Earth Economics Economy Education Effort Eternity Ethics Evil Evolution Exercise Expectations Failure Faith Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fighting Food Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Fun Funny Genius Giving Giving Up God Golf Greatness Greek Growth Happiness Happy Hard Work Hate Hatred Health Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Heroism History Home Honesty Honor House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idolatry Ignorance Imagination Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Islam Jesus Joy Judging Justice Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liberty Life Life And Love Literature Love Luck Lying Making Money Mankind Manners Marriage Military Money Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Motivational Music My Way Nature Observation Office Opportunity Pain Painting Parenting Passion Past Patriotism Peace Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Photography Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Positive Thinking Poverty Power Prayer Progress Propaganda Property Purpose Quality Reading Reality Rebellion Religion Reputation Respect Responsibility Retirement Revenge Revolution Risk Romance Running Sacrifice Safety Salvation Sanity Sarcasm School Science Silence Sin Skins Socialism Society Son Soul Sports Stress Struggle Students Stupidity Style Success Suffering Talent Taxes Teaching Temptation Theatre Time Today Tolerance Trade Tradition Tragedy Travel Trust Truth Tyranny Understanding Vegetarian Violence Virtue Vision Voting Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Wife Wine Winning Wisdom Work Worship Writing Youth
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.

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.419, e-artnow

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Success
Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

George Bernard Shaw
Titles, Mediocre, Inferiors
Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Titles"

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Change, Time
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.470, The Floating Press

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Perfect, Mankind

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

George Bernard Shaw
Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3238, e-artnow

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw
Wise, Chocolate, Battle
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1301, e-artnow

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

George Bernard Shaw
Heart, Love Is, Enemy
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.883, e-artnow

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Anger, Common
"The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw".

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

George Bernard Shaw
Islamic, Believe, Men
Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

George Bernard Shaw
Firsts, Evolution, Programming
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3198, e-artnow

Music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw
Music, Music Is, Brandy
Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

George Bernard Shaw
People, Giving, Vision

In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

George Bernard Shaw
Cat, Men, May
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.11, The Floating Press

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Giving, Tree

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Lying, Humor
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw
Relationship, Marriage, Men
Man and Superman (1903) act 2

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw
Intelligent, Intelligence, Statistics

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw
Time, Age, Generations
Fanny's First Play (1914) "Induction"

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

George Bernard Shaw
Moving, Tired, Men
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.201, The Floating Press

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

George Bernard Shaw
Stay Strong, Perseverance, Lonely
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

George Bernard Shaw
Kings, Jobs, Fall

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

George Bernard Shaw
People, Worship, Havens

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Bad Man
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1662, e-artnow

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

George Bernard Shaw
Science, Men, Humanity
Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.33, Courier Corporation

You May Also Like: