Life would be… George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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A lifetime of… George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

March 1st, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

I showed my… George Bernard Shaw

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

February 7th, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

We should all be… George Bernard Shaw

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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Marriage is popular… George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

February 1st, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Let a short Act of… George Bernard Shaw

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

January 23rd, 2008 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The fact that a… George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

December 30th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Beware of the man… George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

December 26th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The trouble with… George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

December 19th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

A pessimist thinks… George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

December 7th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The reasonable man… George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 25th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

It is dangerous to… George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 14th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Youth is a… George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 10th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Alcohol is the… George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 9th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

It is most unwise… George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 5th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

What is the matter… George Bernard Shaw

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

November 2nd, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

A man ought to be… George Bernard Shaw

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

October 23rd, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The fickleness of… George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

October 16th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

What is virtue but… George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

September 27th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Fashions are the… George Bernard Shaw

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

September 20th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Audacious ribald:… George Bernard Shaw

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

September 4th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

What God hath… George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 31st, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Life does not cease… George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 25th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

I can forgive… George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 18th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The golden rule is… George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 9th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The power of… George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 7th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The reasonable man… George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

August 4th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The Churches must… George Bernard Shaw

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw, “St. Joan”

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 23rd, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Common sense is… George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 17th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Martyrdom is the… George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 16th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The perfect love… George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 16th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

When a man wants to… George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 14th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Success covers a… George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 13th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

England and America… George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 12th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Democracy is a… George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 11th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Life is a disease;… George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 10th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Except during the… George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 9th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Do you know what a… George Bernard Shaw

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

July 8th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Few people think… George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 31st, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The longer I live… George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 12th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

It took me twenty… George Bernard Shaw

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 11th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Baseball has the… George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 10th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Martyrdom is the… George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 9th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

We learn from… George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 2nd, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The perfect love… George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

May 1st, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

The golden rule is… George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

April 30th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

It is most unwise… George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

April 29th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

All great truths… George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

April 28th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Patriotism is your… George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

April 13th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

Americans adore me… George Bernard Shaw

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

January 28th, 2007 - Posted in George Bernard Shaw | | 0 Comments

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