George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Silly Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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