Quotes

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” George Bernard Shaw

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” George Bernard Shaw

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” George Bernard Shaw

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” George Bernard Shaw

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” George Bernard Shaw

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” George Bernard Shaw

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.” George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.” George Bernard Shaw

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” George Bernard Shaw

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.” George Bernard Shaw

“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

“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” George Bernard Shaw

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” George Bernard Shaw

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.” George Bernard Shaw

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” George Bernard Shaw

“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” George Bernard Shaw

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” George Bernard Shaw

“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” George Bernard Shaw

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” George Bernard Shaw

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.” George Bernard Shaw

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.” George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.” George Bernard Shaw

“Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” George Bernard Shaw