Tags: George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
– George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
– George Bernard Shaw
Death is for many of
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
– George Bernard Shaw
If you can’t get rid
If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
– George Bernard Shaw
Dancing the vertical expression of
Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
– George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
– George Bernard Shaw
You’ll never have a quiet
“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
– George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as
“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
– George Bernard Shaw
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
– George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
– George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
– George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
– George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
– George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
– George Bernard Shaw
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
– George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
– George Bernard Shaw