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While Browsing In A Second-hand Bookshop One Day, George Bernard Shaw Was Amused To Find A Copy Of One Of His Own Works Which He Himself Had Inscribed For A Friend: "to ----, With Esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He Immediately Purchased The Book And Returned It To The Friend With A Second Inscription: "with Renewed Esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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While Browsing In A Second-hand Bookshop One Day, George Bernard Shaw Was Amused To Find A Copy Of One Of His Own Works Which He Himself Had Inscribed For A Friend: "to ----, With Esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He Immediately Purchased The Book And Returned It To The Friend With A Second Inscription: "with Renewed Esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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Problem Solving

If You Go To Heaven Without Being Naturally Qualified For It You Will Not Enjoy Yourself There.

Choose Silence Of All Virtues, For By It You Hear Other Men's Imperfections, And Conceal Your Own.

Martyrdom, Sir, Is What These People Like: It Is The Only Way In Which A Man Can Become Famous Without Ability.

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Christianity Might Be A Good Thing If Anyone Ever Tried It.

People Must Not Be Forced To Adopt Me As Their Favourite Author, Even For Their Own Good.

If You Can’t Appreciate What You’ve Got, You’d Better Get What You Can Appreciate.

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If There Is A God

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A Conquered Nation Is Like A Man With Cancer: He Can Think Of Nothing Else.

Vegetarians Claim To Be Immune From Most Diseases But They Have Been Known To Die From Time To Time.

Men Are Always Thinking That They Are Going To Do Something Grandly Wicked To Their Enemies; But When It Comes To The Point, Really Bad Men Are Just As Rare As Really Good Ones.

Doing What Needs To Be Done May Not Make You Happy, But It Will Make You Great.

Silence Is The Most Perfect Expression Of Scorn.

Man Is Unique In That He Has Plans, Purpose And Goals Which Require The Need For Criteria Of Choice. The Need For Ethical Value Is Within Man Whose Future May Largely Be Determined By The Choice He Make

Every Doctor Will Allow A Colleague To Decimate A Whole Countryside Sooner Than Violate The Bond Of Professional Etiquette By Giving Him Away.

Some Persons, By Hating Vice Too Much, Come To Love Men Too Little. Hatred Is Self-punishment. Hatred Is The Cowards Revenge For Being Intimidated.

Everything I Eat Has Been Proved By Some Doctor Or Other To Be A Deadly Poison, And Everything I Don't Eat Has Been Proved To Be Indispensable For Life. But I Go Marching On.

To Be In Hell Is To Drift; To Be In Heaven Is To Steer.

A Man Of Great Common Sense And Good Taste - Meaning Thereby A Man Without Originality Or Moral Courage.

Every Man Over Forty Is A Scoundrel.

Why Not Give Christianity A Trial?

The More A Man Possesses Over And Above What He Uses, The More Careworn He Becomes.

Marriage Is Good Enough For The Lower Classes: They Have Facilities For Desertion That Are Denied To Us.

I Can Forgive Alfred Nobel For Having Invented Dynamite, But Only A Fiend In Human Form Could Have Invented The Nobel Prize.

A Man Who Desires To Get Married Should Know Everything Or Nothing.

Importance Of Being Earnest

I Am Highly Susceptible To The Force Of All Truly Religious Music, Especially To The Music Of My Own Church, The Church Of Shelley, Michelangelo, And Beethoven.

The Things Most People Want To Know About Are Usually None Of Their Business.

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I Am The Most Spontaneous Speaker In The World Because Every Word, Every Gesture, And Every Retort Has Been Carefully Rehearsed.

It Has Taken Me Nearly Twenty Years Of Studied Self-restraint, Aided By The Natural Decay Of My Faculties, To Make Myself Dull Enough To Be Accepted As A Serious Person By The British Public; And I Am Not Sure That I Am Not Still Regarded As A Suspicious Character In Some Quarters.

Life Is Too Short For Men To Take It Seriously.

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Poverty Doesn't Bring Unhappiness; It Brings Degradation.

The Devil Can Quote Shakespeare For His Own Purpose.

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When A Stupid Man Is Doing Something He Is Ashamed Of, He Always Declares That It Is His Duty.

We Mustn't Be Stiff And Stand-off, You Know. We Must Be Thoroughly Democratic, And Patronize Everybody Without Distinction Of Class.

The Great Advantage Of A Hotel Is That It Is A Refuge From Home Life.

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Who Are Those We Love? Only Those We Do Not Hate.

We Are Members One Of Another; So That You Cannot Injure Or Help Your Neighbor Without Injuring Or Helping Yourself.

The Ideal Love Affair Should Be Conducted By Post.

Build A System That Even A Fool Can Use, And Only A Fool Will Want To Use It.

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You Have No Right To Say That I Am Not Sincere. I Have Found A Happiness In Art That Real Life Has Never Given Me. I Am Intensely In Earnest About Art. There Is Is A Magic And Mystery In Art That You Know Nothing Of.

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The Doctor Learns That If He Gets Ahead Of The Superstitions Of His Patients He Is A Ruined Man; And The Result Is That He Instinctively Takes Care Not To Get Ahead Of Them.

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Liberty Means Responsibility. That Is Why Most Men Dread It.

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Though I Can Make My Extravaganzas Appear Credible, I Cannot Make The Truth Appear So.

Nothing Makes A Man So Selfish As Work.

The Moment We Want To Believe Something, We Suddenly See All The Arguments For It, And Become Blind To The Arguments Against It.

No Use Slaving For Me And Then Saying You Want To Be Cared For: Who Cares For A Slave? If You Come Back, Come Back For The Sake Of Good Fellowship; For You’ll Get Nothing Else.

Cruelty Must Be Whitewashed By A Moral Excuse, And Pretense Of Reluctance.

When I See That The Nineteenth Century Has Crowned The Idolatry Of Art With The Deification Of Love, So That Every Poet Is Supposed To Have Pierced To The Holy Of Holies When He Has Announced That Love Is The Supreme, Or The Enough, Or The All, I Feel That Art Was Safer In The Hands Of The Most Fanatical Of Cromwell's Major Generals Than It Will Be If Ever It Gets Into Mine.

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Our Necessities Are Few, But Our Wants Are Endless.

There Is Not One Single Established Religion That An Intelligent, Educated Man Can Believe.

We Must Not Stay As We Are, Doing Always What Was Done Last Time; Or We Shall Stick In The Mud.

A Succession Of Eye-openers Each Involving The Repudiation Of Some Previously Held Belief.

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There Is In Man A Specific Lust For Cruelty Which Infects Even His Passion Of Pity And Makes It Savage.

There Are Some Experiences In Life Which Should Not Be Demanded Twice From Any Man, And One Of Them Is Listening To The Brahms Requiem.

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A Child Hasn't A Grown-up Person's Appetite For Affection. A Little Of It Goes A Long Way With Them; And They Like A Good Imitation Of It Better Than The Real Thing, As Every Nurse Knows.

There Are No Perfectly Honorable Men; But Every True Man Has One Main Point Of Honor And A Few Minor Ones.

Man Gives Every Reason For His Conduct Save One, Every Excuse For His Crimes Save One, Every Plea For His Safety Save One; And That One Is His Cowardice

Liquor Is The Chloroform Which Enables The Poor Man To Endure The Painful Operation Of Living.

God Made The World As An Artist And That Is Why The World Must Learn From Its Artists.

You Cannot Learn To Skate Without Making Yourself Ridiculous - The Ice Of Life Is Slippery.

Revolutions Have Never Lightened The Burden Of Tyranny; They Have Only Shifted It To Another Shoulder.

A Nap, My Friend, Is A Brief Period Of Sleep Which Overtakes Superannuated Persons When They Endeavor To Entertain Unwelcome Visitors Or To Listen To Scientific Lectures.

It Is Long And Hard And Painful To Create Life: It Is Short And Easy To Steal The Life Others Have Made.

The English Have No Respect For Their Language, And Will Not Teach Their Children To Speak It. They Spell It So Abominably That No Man Can Teach Himself What It Soundslike.it Isimpossible Foran Englishmanto Openhis Mouth Without Making Some Other Englishman Hate Or Despise Him.

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.

If All You Are Going To Do In Life Are The Things That Are Convenient And Comfortable, The Great Things Never Get Done.

I Talk Democracy To These Men And Women. I Tell Them That They Have The Vote, And That Theirs Is The Kingdom And The Power And The Glory. I Say To Them You Are Supreme: Exercise Your Power. They Say, That's Right: Tell Us What To Do; And I Tell Them. I Say Exercise Our Vote Intelligently By Voting For Me. And They Do. That's Democracy; And A Splendid Thing It Is Too For Putting The Right Men In The Right Place.

Laws, Religions, Creeds, And Systems Of Ethics, Instead Of Making Society Better Than Its Best Unit, Make It Worse Than Its Average Unit, Because They Are Never Up To Date.

You Can Feel Nothing But A Torment, And Believe Nothing But A Lie. You Will Not Raise Your Head To Look At All The Miracles Of Life That Surround You; But You Will Run Ten Miles To See A Fight Or A Death.

Independence? That's Middle Class Blasphemy. We Are All Dependent On One Another, Every Soul Of Us On Earth.

What Englishman Will Give His Mind To Politics As Long As He Can Afford To Keep A Motor Car?

Death Is For Many Of Us The Gate Of Hell; But We Are Inside On The Way Out, Not Outside On The Way In.

I Have Always Held The Religion Of Muhammad In High Estimation Because Of Its Wonderful Vitality. It Is The Only Religion Which Appears To Me To Possess That Assimilating Capability To The Changing Phase Of Existence Which Can Make Itself Appeal To Every Age... I Have Studied Him - The Wonderful Man, And In My Opinion Far From Being An Anti-christ He Must Be Called The Saviour Of Humanity.

Money Enables Us To Get What We Want Instead Of What Other People Think We Want.

The Man Who Writes About Himself And His Own Time Is The Only Man Who Writes About All People And About All Time.

Patriotism Is A Pernicious, Psychopathic Form Of Idiocy.

Have You Ever Met A Man Of Good Character Where Women Are Concerned?

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.

Keep Away From Books And From Men Who Get Their Ideas From Books, And Your Own Books Will Always Be Fresh.

The Love Of Economy Is The Root Of All Virtue.

Social Progress Takes Effect Through The Replacement Of All Institutions By New Ones; And Since Every Institution Involves The Recognition Of The Duty Of Conforming To It, Progress Must Involve The Repudiation Of An Established Duty At Every Step.

If Associations To Control Burglary And Murder Were Tolerated We Should Take It For Granted That The Members Should All Be Burglers And Murderers.

Those Who Talk Most About The Blessings Of Marriage And The Constancy Of Its Vows Are The Very People Who Declare That If The Chain Were Broken And The Prisoners Left Free To Choose, The Whole Social Fabric Would Fly Asunder. You Cannot Have The Argument Both Ways. If The Prisoner Is Happy, Why Lock Him In? If He Is Not, Why Pretend That He Is?

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

I Am Sorry To Have To Introduce The Subject Of Christmas. It Is An Indecent Subject; A Cruel, Gluttonous Subject; A Drunken, Disorderly Subject; A Wasteful, Disastrous Subject; A Wicked, Cadging, Lying, Filthy, Blasphemous And Demoralizing Subject. Christmas Is Forced On A Reluctant And Disgusted Nation By The Shopkeepers And The Press: On Its Own Merits It Would Wither And Shrivel In The Fiery Breath Of Universal Hatred; And Anyone Who Looked Back To It Would Be Turned Into A Pillar Of Greasy Sausages.

Religion Is A Great Force - The Only Real Motive Force In The World; But What You Fellows Don't Understand Is That You Must Get At A Man Through His Own Religion And Not Through Yours.

The Roulette Table Pays Nobody Except Him That Keeps It. Nevertheless A Passion For Gaming Is Common, Though A Passion For Keeping Roulette Tables Is Unknown.

Your Father Is A Fool Skin Deep; But You Are A Fool To Your Very Marrow.

You Cannot Be A Hero Without Being A Coward.

Youth, What A Pity To Waste It On The Young.

We Must All Share In The Evils Of The World Or Move To Another Planet.

We Must Reform Society Before We Can Reform Ourselves.

Old Men Are Dangerous: It Doesn't Matter To Them What Is Going To Happen To The World.

If You Cannot Have What You Believe In You Must Believe In What You Have.

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When Men Die Of Disease They Are Said To Die From Natural Causes. When They Recover (and Mostly They Do) The Doctor Gets The Credit Of Curing Them.

It's Usually Pointed Out That Women Are Not Fit For Political Power, And Ought Not To Be Trusted With A Vote Because They Are Politically Ignorant, Socially Prejudiced, Narrow-minded, And Selfish. True Enough, But Precisely The Same Is True Of Men!

Vitality Is A Woman Is A Blind Fury Of Creation.

All Government Is Cruel; For Nothing Is So Cruel As Impunity.

My Method Is To Take The Utmost Trouble To Find The Right Thing To Say, And Then To Say It With The Utmost Levity.

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Do You Think That The Things People Make Fools Of Themselves About Are Any Less Real And True Than The Things They Behave Sensibly About? They Are More True: They Are The Only Things That Are True.

If All The Churches Of Europe Closed Their Doors Until The Drums Ceased Rolling They Would Act As A Most Powerful Reminder That Though The Glory Of War Is A Famous And Ancient Glory, It Is Not The Final Glory Of God.

Nothing Is Ever Done In This World Until Men Are Prepared To Kill One Another If It Is Not Done.

There Is Nothing In Religion But Fiction.

The Secret To Success Is To Offend The Greatest Number Of People.

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Most Of The Money Given By Rich People In "charity" Is Made Up Of Conscience Money, "ransom," Political Bribery, And Bids For Titles.... One Buys Moral Credit By Signing A Cheque, Which Is Easier Than Turning A Prayer Wheel.

Find Enough Clever Things To Say, And You're A Prime Minister; Write Them Down And You're A Shakespeare.

Those Who Understand The Steam Engine And The Electric Telegraph Spend Their Lives In Trying To Replace Them With Something Better.

If You Cannot Get Rid Of The Family Skeleton, You May As Well Make It Dance.

A Love Affair Should Always Be A Honeymoon. And The Only Way To Make Sure Of That Is To Keep Changing The Man; For The Same Man Can Never Keep It Up.

I Learned More From The First Stupid Woman Who Fell In Love With Me Than Ever My Brains Taught Me.

Brigham Young Lived To Become Immortal In History As An American Moses By Leading His People Through The Wilderness Into An Unpromised Land.

I Can't Talk Religion To A Man With Bodily Hunger In His Eyes.

The Domestic Career Is No More Natural To All Women Than The Military Career Is Natural To All Men.

Get Out Of My Way; For I Won't Stop For You.

All Great Truths Begin As Blasphemies.

Make Me A Beautiful Word For Doing Things Tomorrow; For That Surely Is A Great And Blessed Invention.

It's Not That I'm So Clever, It Is That Others Are So Stupid.

What Is Really Important In Man Is The Part Of Him That We Do Not Understand. Of Much Of It We Are Not Even Conscious, Just As We Are Not Normally Conscious Of Keeping Up Our Circulation By Our Heart-pump, Though If We Neglect It We Die.

Nobody Supposes That Doctors Are Less Virtuous Than Judges; But A Judge Whose Salary And Reputation Depended On Whether The Verdict Was For Plaintiff Or Defendant, Prosecutor Or Prisoner, Would Be As Little Trusted As A General In The Pay Of The Enemy.

If You Injure Your Neighbour, Better Not Do It By Halves.

If At Age 20 You Are Not A Communist Then You Have No Heart. If At Age 30 You Are Not A Capitalist Then You Have No Brains.

In Order To Fully Realize How Bad A Popular Play Can Be, It Is Necessary To See It Twice.

Faith In Reason As A Prime Motor Is No Longer The Criterion Of The Sound Mind, Any More Than Faith In The Bible Is The Criterion Of Righteous Intention.

Jesus Remains Unshaken As The Practical Man; And We Stand Exposed As The Fools, The Blunderers, The Unpractical Visionaries.

When The Master Has Come To Do Everything Through The Slave, The Slave Becomes His Master, Since He Cannot Live Without Him.

When Your Eyes Are Fixed In The Stare Of Unconsciousness, And Your Throat Coughs The Last Gasping Breath - As One Dragged In The Dark To A Great Precipice - What Assistance Are A Wife And Child?

Englishmen Hate Liberty And Equality Too Much To Understand Them. But Every Englishman Loves A Pedigree.

The First Prison I Ever Saw Had Inscribed On It Cease To Do Evil: Learn To Do Well; But As The Inscription Was On The Outside, The Prisoners Could Not Read It.

Hurrah For Revolution And More Cannon-shot! A Beggar Upon Horseback Lashes A Beggar On Foot. Hurrah For Revolution And Cannon Come Again! The Beggars Have Changed Places, But The Lash Goes On.

As Long As You Don't Fly Openly In The Face Of Society, Society Doesn't Ask Any Inconvenient Questions; And It Makes Precious Short Work Of The Cads Who Do. There Are No Secrets Better Kept Than The Secrets Everybody Guesses.

Captain Shotover: How Much Does Your Soul Eat? Ellie: Oh, A Lot. It Eats Music And Pictures And Books And Mountains And Lakes And Beautiful Things To Wear And Nice People To Be With.

We Learn From Experience That Men Never Learn Anything From Experience.

When Asked Which Dog Wins, He Reflected For A Moment And Replied, "the One I Feed The Most."

Native American

I'm An Atheist And I Thank God For It.

You May Well Ask Me Why...i Took The Time To Write [books]. I Can Only Reply That I Do Not Know. There Was No Why About It. I Had To: That Was All.

If We Women Were Particular About Men's Characters, We Should Never Get Married At All.

Our Prejudices Are So Deeply Rooted That We Never Think Of Them As Prejudices But Call Them Common Sense.

My Reputation Grows With Every Failure.

Learning From Failure

You See Things; And You Say, ‘why?’ But I Dream Things That Never Were; And I Say, ‘why Not?

Nietzche . . . He Was A Confirmed Life Force Worshipper. It Was He Who Raked Up The Superman, Who Is As Old As Prometheus; And The 20th Century Will Run After This Newest Of The Old Crazes When It Gets Tired Of The World, The Flesh, And Your Humble Servant.

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