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| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| The love of economy is the root of all virtue. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| If parents would only realize how they bore their children! |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| 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 courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Wisdom comes by disillusionment. |
| by George Santayana |
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