George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Confused Quotes, Hero Quotes

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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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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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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