George Bernard Shaw

(76 votes)   It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(76 votes)   Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(76 votes)   Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(76 votes)   What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(75 votes)   All progress means war with society.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(74 votes)   Most people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw
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(74 votes)   We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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(73 votes)   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.

George Bernard Shaw
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(73 votes)   The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(73 votes)   There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(73 votes)   Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(72 votes)   He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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(71 votes)   Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

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(71 votes)   We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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