Quotes

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.” George Bernard Shaw

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.” George Bernard Shaw

“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” George Bernard Shaw

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” George Bernard Shaw

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” George Bernard Shaw

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.” George Bernard Shaw

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.” George Bernard Shaw

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” George Bernard Shaw

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” George Bernard Shaw

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” George Bernard Shaw

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” George Bernard Shaw

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.” George Bernard Shaw

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.” George Bernard Shaw

“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.” George Bernard Shaw

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.” George Bernard Shaw

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” George Bernard Shaw

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” George Bernard Shaw

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.” George Bernard Shaw

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.” George Bernard Shaw

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.” George Bernard Shaw

“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.” George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.” George Bernard Shaw

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.” George Bernard Shaw

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” George Bernard Shaw

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw