George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Today Quotes, Tomorrow Quotes

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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