~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

[MysteRy]

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

[MysteRy]

A true artist will let his wife starve his children go barefoot his mother drudge for his living at seventy sooner than work at anything but his art.

[MysteRy]

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.

[MysteRy]

This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.

[MysteRy]

A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

[MysteRy]

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

[MysteRy]

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague pestilence and famine.

[MysteRy]

A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

[MysteRy]

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

[MysteRy]

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

[MysteRy]

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition to blaspheme to outrage good taste to corrupt the youthful mind and generally to scandalize one's uncles.