4293 E George Bernard Shaw Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
Happiness
Happiness
4285 E George Bernard Shaw Activity is the only road to knowledge.
Knowledge
Knowledge
4684 E George Bernard Shaw He who has never hoped can never despair.
Hope
Hope
3711 E George Bernard Shaw He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Teaching
Teaching
4290 E George Bernard Shaw Economy is the art of making the most of life.
Economy
Economy
4291 E George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Virtue
Virtue
2646 E George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Love
Love
4014 E George Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Quotations
Quotations
4019 E George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Sincerity
Sincerity
3515 E George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Responsibility
Responsibility
3010 E George Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Truth
Truth
3741 E George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Shame
Shame
4288 E George Bernard Shaw Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue
Virtue
2578 E George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
Martyrdom
Martyrdom
4284 E George Bernard Shaw The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child’s character.
Education
Education
4289 E George Bernard Shaw Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
Obedience
Obedience
4303 E George Bernard Shaw Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4299 E George Bernard Shaw He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labor.
Generosity
Generosity
6135 E George Bernard Shaw Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another.
Love
Love
2608 E George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Democracy
Democracy
2304 E George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Government
Government
4295 E George Bernard Shaw The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
Possession
Possession
2680 E George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
Government
Government
4415 E George Bernard Shaw You see things and you say 'why?" But I dream things that never were and I say 'why not?'
Dreaming
Dreaming
4298 E George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Wisdom
Wisdom
3224 E George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
Cynism
Cynism
3435 E George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Taste
Taste
4302 E George Bernard Shaw Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. The sound body is a product of the sound mind.
Health
Health
4301 E George Bernard Shaw We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good. What would he say now?
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4292 E George Bernard Shaw In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
Genius
Genius
4305 E George Bernard Shaw Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4297 E George Bernard Shaw The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
Reason and Feeling
Reason and Feeling
4287 E George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Richness
Richness
4304 E George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4296 E George Bernard Shaw The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Unconscious
Unconscious
3457 E George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Democracy
Democracy
4306 E George Bernard Shaw If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
2515 E George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Family
Family
3200 E George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity
Indifference
Indifference
4294 E George Bernard Shaw The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Happiness
Happiness
2220 E George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Religion
Religion
4300 E George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
2635 E 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.
Adaptation
Adaptation
4286 E George Bernard Shaw Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor.
Morality
Morality