george bernard shaw quotes

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.

-- George Bernard Shaw

'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous
without ability.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw

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

-- George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is
to a cockatoo.
-- George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on
earth.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot
remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about
women.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the
farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than
chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

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

-- George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most
insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are
required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and
exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

-- George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity, no really
self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for.
Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
-- George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has
succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability
and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but
money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
-- George Bernard Shaw