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In an article on Bunyan latel...

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Men trifle with their busines...

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Better see rightly on a pound...

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Wise kings wear shabby clothe...

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When your eyes are fixed in t...

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A miracle, my friend, is an e...

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The chief objection to playin...

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Hell is paved with good inten...

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I'm only a beer teetotaller, ...

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am oppressed with a dread o...

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Every profession is a conspir...

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If the English can survive th...

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The most sublime courage I ha...

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Hell is not all paved with ba...

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Though I can make my extravag...

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Would the world ever have bee...

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

No use slaving for me and the...

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I must remind you that our cr...

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is wrong with priests an...

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The doctor learns that if he ...

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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