George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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