George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Ice Quotes, Ridiculous Quotes

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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