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3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grows with every failure.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

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

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

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

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

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