George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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