All George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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