George Bernard Shaw

Quote: Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. [George Bernard Shaw]

Quote: If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. [George Bernard Shaw]

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