Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Old Age
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Old Age
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Youth is wasted on the young.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Old Age
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Art
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
- Ted Shawn - In Art
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Business
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
- George Bernard Shaw - In On Change
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
- George Bernard Shaw - In Forgiveness
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Life
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Love
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Love
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Marriage
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Nature
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Patriotism
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Patriotism
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Religion
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- George Bernard Shaw - In Religion
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Science
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Science
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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.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Society
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Success
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Time
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw - In Words to the Wise
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