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3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

An index is a great leveller.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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