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"59 George Bernard Shaw Quotes & Sayings

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Born: July 26, 1856 Died: November 2, 1950 | Playwright |

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

Yourself Life About Creating
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Biggest BiggestProblem Communication Illusion
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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.

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

Doing Honorable Life Making
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Because Grow Old Playing
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Dream IDream Never Say
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art Face Glass Mirror
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Adds Conversation Myself Often
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier

Burglar Faults Financier Qualities
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Any Cease Ceases Die
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Better Bright Clean Keep
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

America Countries England Language
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Any Enough Few Instincts
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Dread Liberty Means Men
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Begin Great Truths
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Enough Everybody Everything Happens
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Epidemic Fashion Induced Nothing
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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.

Believer Drunken Fact Happier
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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

Anybody Bring Country Family
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Cannot Dance Family Get
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Also Dangerous Sincere Stupid
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Food Love Than
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Children Crime Thing Waste
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Art Make Reality Unbearable
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Before Die Even Health
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination Censorship Extreme Form
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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

Avoid Being Enough Happy
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

Abide Achieved Beauty Glory
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Accurate Commonly Cynicism Got
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Child Knowledge Pursuit See
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Always Feels First Had
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Between Difference Else Everybody
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open

Alliance Entered Man Marriage
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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

Human HumanRace Knock Never
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Always Believes Bible Convinced
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

About Advice Anything He
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Creating More Never Problem
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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.

Matter Poor Poverty Questions
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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

Affairs Before Breath Does
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Animals Eat Friends
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Alcohol Anesthesia Endure Life
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

America Asylum Empty Sane
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

DoUntoOthers Expect May Others
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Cannot Does He Teaches
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes & Sayings