Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
George Bernard ShawThe whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard ShawThose who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
George Bernard ShawThe only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
George Bernard ShawHIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
George Bernard ShawThe only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawThe best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard ShawThe truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
George Bernard ShawA man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
George Bernard ShawTo the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
George Bernard ShawA man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard ShawProgress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard ShawTreat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
George Bernard ShawNow that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
George Bernard ShawA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawIf a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
George Bernard ShawWhen a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
George Bernard ShawThe plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
George Bernard ShawIf you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
George Bernard ShawIt would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
George Bernard ShawWhat is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
George Bernard ShawThere is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard ShawWhat is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
George Bernard ShawIn my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
George Bernard ShawFirst really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
George Bernard ShawYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard ShawOh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
George Bernard ShawYou can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
George Bernard ShawThe schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
George Bernard ShawNothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
George Bernard ShawThose who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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