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Life is no brief candle to me....

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.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Only on paper has humanity yet...

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A government that robs Peter t...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Forget about likes and dislike...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The most tragic thing in the w...

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You cannot believe in honor un...

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

In a hospital they throw you o...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Although I cannot lay an egg, ...

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Beware of false knowledge; it ...

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Liberty means responsibility. ...

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Newspapers are unable, seeming...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Orchestras only need to be swo...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Patriotism is your conviction ...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Patriotism is your conviction ...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Patriotism is a pernicious, ps...

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Reasonable people adapt themse...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

People are always blaming thei...

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The possibilities are numerous...

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You see things; and you say, '...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Progress is impossible without...

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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