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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

George Bernard Shaw

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

George Bernard Shaw

An index is a great leveller.

George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw