Quotes

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.” George Bernard Shaw

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” George Bernard Shaw

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.” George Bernard Shaw

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.” George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” George Bernard Shaw

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” George Bernard Shaw

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.” George Bernard Shaw

“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.” George Bernard Shaw

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

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” George Bernard Shaw

“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.” George Bernard Shaw

“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.” George Bernard Shaw

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” George Bernard Shaw

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.” George Bernard Shaw

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” George Bernard Shaw

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.” George Bernard Shaw

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” George Bernard Shaw

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.” George Bernard Shaw

“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.” George Bernard Shaw

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” George Bernard Shaw

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.” George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.” George Bernard Shaw

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” George Bernard Shaw

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” George Bernard Shaw