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12 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

12 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

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

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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