Author Topic: ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes ~ (Read 9468 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #135 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:49:25 AM »

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

MysteRy · « **Reply #136 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:49:52 AM »

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

MysteRy · « **Reply #137 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:50:16 AM »

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

MysteRy · « **Reply #138 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:50:43 AM »

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #139 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:51:03 AM »

The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

MysteRy · « **Reply #140 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:13:13 PM »

The moment we want to believe something we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #141 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:13:38 PM »

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #142 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:14:04 PM »

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

MysteRy · « **Reply #143 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:14:42 PM »

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #144 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:15:10 PM »

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

MysteRy · « **Reply #145 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:15:36 PM »

Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #146 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:16:00 PM »

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

MysteRy · « **Reply #147 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:16:25 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #148 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:16:53 PM »

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

MysteRy · « **Reply #149 on:** August 02, 2014, 01:17:19 PM »

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.

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