" Every man over forty is a scoundrel. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. "

George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Virtue is insufficient temptation. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" It is most unwise for people in love to marry "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists” Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Hell is full of musical amateurs. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" You see things, and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were, and say “Why not? "

George Bernard Shaw, “Metamagical Themas” by Douglas Hofstadter Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Lack of money is the root of all evil. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. "

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2 Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Success covers a multitude of blunders. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. "

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

" This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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