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George Bernard Shaw quotes

Ocupation: Playwright

Life: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Birthday: July 26

Death: November 2

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Quotation George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance Quotes

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

source: - George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

Topics: Ignorance, Knowledge, Hunting, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge Is Dangerous

Quotation George Bernard Shaw Life isn t about finding yourself Life is about creating Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

source: - George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Innovation And Business

Quotation George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable Quotes

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Topics: Islam, Followers, Worst

Quotation George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable Quotes

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Methuselah

Quotation George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation Quotes

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

Topics: Running, Loss, Office, Funny Diet, Body Fat

If 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?

Topics: Animal, Land, Rights, Animal Welfare, Vegetarian Health

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Clever, Clever Woman, Attractiveness

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

source: - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

Topics: Life, Care, Take Care, Man And Superman

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Topics: Inspirational, Family, Happiness, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Topics: Freedom, Men, Action

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Topics: Happiness, Happy, Greatness, Achieve Greatness

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Topics: Real, Reading, Learning, Unschooling

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Topics: Music, Musical, Hell, Funny Music

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Topics: 4th Of July, Liberty, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Discipline

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Topics: Justice, Long, Way, My Ambition, Ambitious Goals

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Topics: Wine, Mind, Cows, Caliber, Nutrients

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.

Topics: Country, Motherhood, Matter, Social Service, Inspirational Family Love

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Topics: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

source: - Attributed in "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1971.

Topics: Time, School, Interrupted

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Topics: Joy, Purpose, Want

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Topics: Peace, Names, Opposites, Man And Superman, Capital Punishment

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Topics: Peace, Moral, Excuse, Reluctance

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Topics: Memories, Recollection, Feels

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Topics: Life, Women, Upset, Pygmalion

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Topics: Family, Home, Thinking, Love Life And Family, Funny Family

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Joy, Man And Superman, Joy Of Living

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Topics: Men, Accomplished, Reasonable Man, Reasonableness

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Topics: Forgiving, Form, Nobel, Dynamite

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Topics: Art, Believe, Blessed

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Topics: Expectations, Miracle, Events

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Topics: Sacrifice, Humans

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Topics: Character, Animal, Evil, Social Evils, Animal Testing

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Topics: Knowledge, Man And Superman

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Topics: Religion, Atheism, World

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

Topics: Men, Humanity, Islam, Anti Christ, Wonderful Man

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

Topics: Soulmate, Stars, Inspiration, Nameless, Vagabonds

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Topics: Funny Inspirational, Men, Hegel, Funny Oxymoron

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Topics: Writing, Ignorance, Editors

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

Topics: Life, Night, Play, Classic Insult, Repartee

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Topics: Men, Prison, Anxious

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Topics: Differences, Heaven, Pilots

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Topics: Happiness, Sacrifice, Quality, Readiness

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Topics: Men, Devil, Spirit

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Topics: Our Society, Belief, Dangerous, Suspension Of Disbelief

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Topics: Dog, Silly, Gambling, Labrador Dogs, Cute Puppy

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

Topics: Children, Intelligent, Race, Smallpox, Extermination

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

Topics: Men, Emotional, Tea, Opium

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Topics: Religious, Business, Truth, Spiritual Truth, Discarded

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Topics: Life, Atheist, Beer, Credulity, Just Believe

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Life, Motivational, Positive, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Topics: Jobs, Garden, Gardening

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Topics: Knowledge, Fundamentals, Assumption

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Topics: Mad, Insanity, Analysis, This Crazy World, Madness And Sanity

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

source: - Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Funny Leadership, Income Tax

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Topics: Dirty, Naughty, Pigs, Funny Business

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

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Topics: Trust, Karma, Betrayal, Lies And Liars, Being Lied

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Topics: Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge, Man And Superman, History Repeats Itself

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Topics: Political, Society, Matter, Rich And Poor, Uselessness

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Topics: Risk, Littles, Dangerous

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Topics: People, Lions, Safe, Caged, Caged Animal

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Topics: Book, Censorship, Logical, Banned, Banned Books

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Topics: Kings, Hallucinations, Rebellious

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Topics: Hands, Miracle, Surround, Miracle Of Life, Miracles Can Happen

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

Topics: Humanity, Abiding, Paper, Abiding Love

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Topics: Country, Two, America, Two Nations, England And America

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Topics: May, Serious, Rebellious

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Topics: Mistake, Political, Politics

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Topics: Happiness, Mistake, Men, Toothache

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Topics: Pain, Years, Boards

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Topics: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Wealth, Money Happiness

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Topics: Marriage, Wedding, Opportunity, Man And Superman, Wedding Marriage

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Topics: Crazy, Believe, Reading

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Topics: Inspirational, Wise, Men

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Inspirational Vacation, Like And Dislike

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Topics: Life, Travel, Home, Home Life

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Topics: Prayer, People, Religion

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Topics: Work, Holiday, Definitions, Inspirational Retirement, Funny Holiday

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Topics: Angel, Heaven, Particular

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Topics: Education, Teacher, Clever, Man And Superman

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Topics: Time, Men, World

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Topics: Animal, Humans

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Topics: Funny, Forever, Eulogy, Senior Citizen

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Topics: Love, Marriage, People, Unwise

Better never than late.

Topics: Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Topics: Veterans Day, Peace, War, Make Peace Not War, Peace Not War

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Topics: Faith, Believe, Men, Man And Superman

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Topics: Self, Class, Morality, Middle Class, Live For Others

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Topics: Death, Witty, Government, Incitement, Assassination

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Topics: Peace, Race, Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism

I want to be all used up when I die.

Topics: Inspirational, Death, Dying

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Topics: Inspirational, Attitude, Fear, Danger In Life

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Topics: Creativity, Answers, Problem Solving, Finding Your Path

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Topics: Life, Vices, Virtue, Abstaining, Vice And Virtue

My reputation grows with every failure.

Topics: Failure, Reputation, Grows, Learning From Failure

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Topics: Nice, Goes On, Adore

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Topics: Sarcastic, Men, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Arbor Day

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Learning, Inhumanity

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Topics: Inspirational, Wise, Men

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Topics: Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom, Man And Superman, Wisdom And Experience

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Topics: Skeptic, Profession, Persons

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Topics: Life, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Humor, Successful Marriage

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Creativity

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 on to future generations.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happy, Generation Gap, Fulfillment In Life

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Topics: Men, Hands, Law, Man And Superman, Committing Crimes

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Hate, Optimism And Pessimism

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Topics: Imagine

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Topics: Men, Ordinary, May, Government Officials

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Topics: Greatness, Needs, Done

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Topics: Beauty, Tailors, Measurement

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Topics: Health, Mind, Sound, Sound Mind, Sound Body

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Topics: History

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Topics: Diversity, Helping, Neighbor

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Topics: Drinking, Conspiracy, Profession

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Topics: Heaven, Hell

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Topics: Order, Play, Realizing

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Topics: Children, People, Parent, Funny Parent

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Topics: Stupidity, Might, Christianity

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Topics: Responsibility, Boss, Revolution

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....

Topics: Law, Important, Manners

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

source: - Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

Topics: Country, Mean, Doe

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Topics: Men, Doctors, Numbers

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Topics: Men, Sky, He Man, Man And Superman, Ireland And The Irish

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Topics: Happiness, Pursuit, Folly, Happiness And Beauty

Oh, 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

Topics: Animal, Boots, Legs, Vegetarian Diet

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

Topics: Night, Men, Giving, Gravy

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Topics: Work, Men, Idiot, Specialists

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

Topics: Eggs, Judging, Judgement, Good Judges

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Topics: Health, Social, Worst, Vested Interests, Ill Health

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Topics: Animal, Suffering, Violence

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Topics: World

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Topics: Accomplishment, Easy, Politeness, Profitable

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

Topics: Smart, Shoes, Rebel, Very Smart

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Topics: Fashion, Thinking, People

Our first duty is not to be poor.

Topics: Firsts, Wealth, Poor

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Topics: Jesus, Men, Visionaries

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Topics: Freedom, Sarcasm, Political

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Topics: Teaching, Learning, Eulogy, Man And Superman, Golden Rule

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

Topics: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman

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

Topics: Men, Honor, Genius

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Topics: Justice, Long, Community, Social Responsibility, Spiritual Community

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Topics: Humorous, Profound, Temptation, Resisting Temptation

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Topics: Grieving

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Topics: Men, Tree, Doe

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Topics: Love, Confused, Curiosity, Love At First Sight, Time And Love

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Topics: Inspirational, Family, Dance, Genealogy, Inspirational Family

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Topics: Funny, Life, Drinking, Alcoholism, Funny Sarcastic

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Topics: Witty, Humorous, Drinking, Delicious Food, I Love Food

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Topics: Sarcastic, Thinking, Careers, Professional Career, Career Politicians

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Topics: Girly, Women, Character

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Topics: Gentleman, World, Personal Growth, True Gentleman, Perfect Gentleman

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Topics: Sarcastic, Science, Creating

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Topics: Friendship, Food, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Topics: Life, Marriage, Religion, Man And Superman, Do Unto Others

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.

Topics: Life, Motivational, Friendship

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Topics: Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Nothing Matters, My Heart Is Broken

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Topics: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

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

Topics: Funny, Wisdom, Country, Indian Patriotic, Modern Warfare 2

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Topics: Inspirational, Children, Truth, Truth And Honesty, Truth Honesty

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Topics: Class, Community, Soul, Middle Class, Organ Donation

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Topics: Beauty, Sight, House

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Perserverance, Success Failure

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Topics: Forgiveness, Blow, Men, Man And Superman

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Topics: Motivational, Happiness, Happy, Just Be Happy, Secret To Happiness

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Topics: Clever, Silly, Writing, Prime Minister

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Topics: Sarcastic, Food, Science

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Topics: Funny, Birthday, Time, Man And Superman, Milestone Birthday

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Topics: Motivational, Spiritual, Art, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Topics: Life And Love, Fear, Religion, Organized Religion

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Topics: Respect, Motherhood, Men

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Topics: People, Opinion, Moments, Vacant

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Topics: Intelligent, Intelligence, Statistics, Statistician, Intelligent Person

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Topics: Family, Country, Children

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Fashion

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Topics: Progress, Firsts, Censorship, Banned Books, Supplanting

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.

Topics: Wise, Men, Saint, Credulity, Apostles

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Topics: Sex, Sarcasm, Advice

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

Topics: Sex, Important, Together

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Dragons, Names

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Topics: Way, Hell, Gates Of Hell, Happy Death

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Topics: Dresses, England, Manners

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Topics: Photography, Clothes, Asking

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Topics: Making Love, Opera, Want, Tenors, Baritones

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Topics: Thinking, Said

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Topics: Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational, Instant Communication, Mind Opening

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Topics: Book, Perfect, Mankind, Truth Love

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Topics: Men, Unhappy, World

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Topics: Spiritual, Ideas, People

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Topics: Wise, Humor, Favourite, Funny Witty, Hidden Truth

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Topics: Men, Teach

He who has never hoped can never despair

Topics: Inspirational, Hope, Expectations, Great Hope, Hope And Despair

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Topics: Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking, Levity, Right Thing To Say

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Topics: Life, Clever, Stupid, Very Clever, Chess Game

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