I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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George Bernard Shaw
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About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George Bernard ShawWhen I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.