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When a man of normal habits i...

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The statesman cannot govern w...

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Most of the money given by ri...

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If in the library of your hou...

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When a lion meets another wit...

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A man of my spiritual intensi...

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Think of the fierce energy co...

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 Shaw 1763 quotes

The law is equal before all o...

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You accepted Allah or you had...

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Though all society is founded...

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The reasonable man will adjus...

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I don't like the idea of kill...

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Two people getting together t...

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Perhaps you know some well-of...

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Perhaps the greatest social s...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Every child has a right to it...

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Consistency is the enemy of e...

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

My situation is a solemn one:...

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Treat persons who profess to ...

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is impossible for an Engli...

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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