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Women3 quotes
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Going for it2 quotes
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 · 1903Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Happiness2 quotes
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1894Men and women2 quotes
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Money2 quotes
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. — George Bernard Shaw · 1887Assassination1 quote
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw · 1909Censorship1 quote
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw · 1909Challenges of love1 quote
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898Cognitive biases1 quote
We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw · 1891Confirmation bias1 quote
We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else. — George Bernard Shaw · 1891Creativity1 quote
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" — George Bernard Shaw · 1921Gender relations1 quote
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Getting what you want1 quote
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Goals1 quote
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 · 1896Importance of money1 quote
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. — George Bernard Shaw · 1887Indifference1 quote
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; thats the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw · 1897Intellectual history1 quote
All great truths begin as blasphemies. — George Bernard Shaw · 1918Living life to the fullest1 quote
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 · 1903Locus of control1 quote
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898Love of money1 quote
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Man's inhumanity to man1 quote
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Marriage1 quote
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. — George Bernard Shaw · 1908Morality and business1 quote
The man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week. — George Bernard Shaw · 1889Nature of progress1 quote
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Patriotism1 quote
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1893Photography1 quote
The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw · 1906Poverty1 quote
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Redistribution of wealth1 quote
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw · 1944Religion1 quote
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898Revolution1 quote
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903