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3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

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

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

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

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