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Quotes of George Bernard Shaw (Russia)
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. (life and living)
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. (fellowship)
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. (improvement)
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. (payment)
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately (fathers)
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. (government)
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. (exaggeration)
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. (gambling)
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example. (example)
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (experience)
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! (forgiveness)
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. (family)
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. (health)
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both. (government)
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. (experts)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! (experience)
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. (experience)
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. (evil)
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. (gardening and garden)
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (friends and friendsh)
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. (heartbreak)
The worst sin... is... to be indifferent. (indifference)
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (patriotism)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. (patriotism)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (patriotism)
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