More than 100 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw , Irish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925 and the Oscar in 1938.
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1-Life does not try to find yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
2-Success is not to never make mistakes, but never to commit the same for the second time.
3-People who say it can not be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
4-A winner is one who rises and seeks the circumstances he wants and if he does not find them manufactures.
5-A life dedicated to making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life dedicated to doing nothing.
6-My reputation grows with every failure.
7-Virtue is not to abstain from vice, but to not desire it.
8-The reasonable man adapts to the world; The unreasonable persists trying to adapt the world to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
9-Progress is impossible without change, and those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
10-After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
11-While we have a desire, we have a reason to live. Satisfaction is death.
12-The real moment of success is not the apparent moment of the crowd.
13-Some men see things as they are and wonder why. Others dream things that never were and wonder why not.
14-Although every society is based on intolerance, all progress is in tolerance.
15-Make a rule never give a child a book you would not read yourself.
16-Try to get what you like or you'll be forced to like what you get.
17-A man who has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who do not have it and do not know it.
18-We do not stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.
19-The possibilities are numerous, once we decide to act and not react.
20-A gentleman is someone who puts more into the world than he takes.
21-The scarcity of money is the root of all evil.
22-The healthy body is the product of the healthy mind.
23-Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
24-A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.
25-The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been carried out.
26-We become wiser not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future.
27-Beware of false knowledge; Are more dangerous than ignorance.
28-Better stay clean and bright; You are the window by which you must see the world.
29-Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
30-A happy family is an early sky.
31-The rule of thumb is that there are no rules of gold.
32. There is no more sincere love than the love of food.
33-In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
34-Power does not corrupt men; The fools, however, if they reach a position of power, they corrupt power.
35-Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he does not forgive you or allow you to forgive yourself.
36-Animals are my friends and I do not eat my friends.
37-If there was nothing wrong in the world, there would be nothing to do.
38. The first condition of progress is the elimination of censorship.
39-The one who can, does. He who can not, teaches.
40-If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable man is to learn from experience.
41-If you can not get rid of the skeleton of your closet, better teach it to dance.
42. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
43-Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
44-Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but to believe what he read made him mad.
45. A perpetual vacation is a good definition of hell.
46. Life has only two tragedies. One is not getting the desire of your heart; The other is to get it.
47-You use a glass mirror to see your face; You use artwork to see your soul.
48-When a man wants to kill a tiger he calls it sport; When a tiger wants to kill him he calls it ferocity.
49-People sometimes cling more to their burdens than what burdens attach to them.
50 Now we know that the soul is the body and the body, the soul. They tell us that they are different because they want to persuade us that we can stay with our souls if we let them enslave our bodies.
51-The border between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of seeing things.
52. Alcohol is the anesthesia with which we support the operation of life.
53. A pessimist is a man who thinks that everyone is as unpleasant as himself, and hates them for it.
54. The only way to avoid being unhappy is to not have enough free time to ask if you are happy or not.
55-When a man says that money can do everything, that solves it; it has nothing.
56-The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
57. Murder is the most extreme form of censorship.
"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
59. The first love is just a little crazy and a lot of curiosity.
60-The titles differentiate the mediocre, they embarrass the inferiors and they are discredited by the superiors.
The minority is sometimes right; Most are always wrong.
62. We learn from the experience that men never learn anything from experience.
63-There are no better-kept secrets than the secrets that everyone guesses.
64-The war does not decide who is right, but who is left.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
66-Hate is the revenge of the coward for being bullied.
67-The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.
68-Man can climb to the highest peaks, but he can not live there for long.
"Everything happens to everyone, sooner or later, if there is enough time.
70-The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a haven of life at home.
71-Give him a healthy man and a course to follow, and he will never bother about whether he is happy or not.
72-He who has never had hope can not despair.
73. The most intolerable suffering is that which produces the prolongation of the most intense pleasure.
"To possess glory and youth is too much for a mortal.
75-Youth is wasted on young people.
"I learned a long time ago not to fight with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
I do not like to feel at home when I'm abroad.
78. Freedom means responsibility. That is why most men fear it.
79-Youth is a disease that heals over the years.
"I often quote myself. Add spice to my conversation.
The fact that a believer can be happier than a skeptic is as true as saying that the drunkard is happier than the sober man.
82. All great truths begin as great blasphemies.
I am an atheist and I thank God for it.
84. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
85. Imagination is the beginning of creation. We imagine what we want, we want what we imagine and, at last, we create what we want.
86-Old people are dangerous: they do not care what is going to happen to the world.
87-Life novel to all men. Death reveals the eminent.
88-Most people do not pray; Just pray
89-Nothing worth doing unless the consequences can be serious.
90-Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all the others because you were born in it.
"I'd like to take you seriously, but doing so would be an affront to your intelligence.
92. Silence is the most perfect expression of contempt.
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.
94. Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
95-In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
96-If you have built castles in the air, your work is not lost; Now place the bases under them.
97. Christianity could be good if someone tried to practice it.
98. The only secrets are the secrets that hold themselves.
"Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible.
100-Life is no longer comical because a man dies, nor cease to be tragic because a man laughs.
101-It is easier to replace a dead man than a good image.
Fear can lead men to extremes.
103-Happy is one who maintains a profession that matches his hobby.
104-Home life is not more natural to us than what a cage is to a cockatoo.
105. When a foolish man does something that he is ashamed of, he always declares it to be his duty.
106. When two persons are under the influence of the most violent, the most insane, the most illusory, and the most fleeting of the passions, they are asked to swear that they will continually remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death Separate
107-The problem with her is that she does not have the power of conversation, but she has the power of the word.
108-It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to move by statistics.
109-There is only one religion, although there are a hundred versions of it.
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are a fool."
111-The soul is a gift too precious for God to give man to nothing. This one has to win it, being or doing something.
It is no merit to suffer.
113-My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
114. The story of perfect love is that which is carried out entirely by mail.
115-Humanity soon tires of everything, especially of what it enjoys the most.
116-Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic about it.
No one attacks a lion when the field is full of sheep.
"Money is nothing, but a lot of money, that's something else.
I am afraid that we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
121-Self-sacrifice allows us to sacrifice others without blushing.
122-Hell is full of amateur musicians.
"If I were kind to them they would not take me seriously."
124. Those who do not know how to live must at least die with merit.
"If women were demanding about the character of men, they would never marry."
Marriage is so successful because it combines maximum temptation with maximum opportunity.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
128. The Nazi movement is in many respects one of the most sympathetic.
If I were a woman, I would refrain from talking to any man or doing something for one until I had a vote.
If you want to tell someone the truth, make them laugh! Otherwise, you'll get yourself killed.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
132. Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. "One miracle per minute"would not be a bad slogan for God.
133- The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of man.
A genuine intellectual strives to improve his sense of humor.
A little learning is dangerous, but we must take that risk because a little is what our larger minds can hold.
136. Why should we take sexual advice from the Pope? If he knows anything about the subject, he should not!
137. Humans are the only animals I am completely and truly frightened of.
Most people go to the tomb with their music even inside them.
139. There is nothing more dangerous than the consciousness of a fanatic.
"I'm a Christian. That forces me to be a communist.