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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

George Bernard Shaw
Evil, Saws, Firsts
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Organization, People, Doe

Brains are not everything.

George Bernard Shaw
Brain
1898 Rev Samuel Gardner. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 1.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

George Bernard Shaw
Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, World

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

George Bernard Shaw
Stress, Invention

Property is organized robbery.

George Bernard Shaw
Robbery, Organized, Property
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

George Bernard Shaw
First Love, Firsts, Ends

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw
Lonely, Poetry, World
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.500, e-artnow

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Get Well, Communication
"Getting Married (Mrs. George)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

George Bernard Shaw
Simple, Twenties, Saving
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.2927, e-artnow

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw
Rights, Giving, Purpose

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, Heaven, Soul
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.2523, e-artnow

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

George Bernard Shaw
World, Chiefs, Taxes
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.1742, e-artnow

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

George Bernard Shaw
Accomplishment, Easy, Politeness

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

George Bernard Shaw
Errors, Race, Confusing
"Man and Superman". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Dying, Death And Dying

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw
Jealousy, Running, Real
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.3698, e-artnow

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Progress, Fool

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

George Bernard Shaw
Girl, Flower, Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Pygmalion”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrisy, Doubt, Atheism
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.317, e-artnow

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

George Bernard Shaw
Light, House, Greek

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

George Bernard Shaw
Country, Motherhood, Matter
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

George Bernard Shaw
Sarcastic, Food, Science

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
Writing, Exercise, Imagination

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw
Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak
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.3689, e-artnow

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