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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

George Bernard Shaw
Beauty, Beautiful, Way
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.33, George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw
Sports, Men, Compassion
1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Witty, Learning

All progress means war with society.

George Bernard Shaw
War, Mean, Progress Of Society
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.2650, e-artnow

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness, Believe, Law

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Hate
An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

George Bernard Shaw
Army, Italian, Might
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.392, e-artnow

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Family, Dance

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Government, Class, Long

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Wise, Men
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.522, e-artnow

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

George Bernard Shaw
Purpose, Intention, Knows

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

George Bernard Shaw
Intelligent, Sound

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw
Evil, Poverty, Crime
Major Barbara (1907) preface

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

George Bernard Shaw
Ice, Ridiculous, Life Is
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.3093, e-artnow

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

George Bernard Shaw
People, World, Should

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Happy Birthday, Family
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

George Bernard Shaw
Happiness, Sacrifice, Inner Peace

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw
Crazy, Believe, Reading

Better never than late.

George Bernard Shaw
Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

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

George Bernard Shaw
Success, Business, Goal
Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Waste, Wasting Time
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

George Bernard Shaw
Birthday, Things In Life, Long

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

George Bernard Shaw
Marriage, Should, Contracts
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.2564, e-artnow

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Thinking, Thoughtful

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Poor

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