{"id":266,"date":"2011-02-02T02:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emprendedor.com\/2015\/?p=266"},"modified":"2015-02-02T02:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:48:42","slug":"george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emprendedor.site\/2015\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"George Bernard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"George<\/a>

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)<\/p><\/div>\n

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.<\/p>\n

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.<\/span><\/p>\n

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.<\/span><\/p>\n

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.<\/span><\/p>\n

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

All great truths begin as blasphemies.<\/span><\/p>\n

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n

An index is a great leveller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?<\/span><\/p>\n

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Better never than late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.<\/span><\/p>\n

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.<\/span><\/p>\n

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n

General consultant to mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.<\/span><\/p>\n

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hell is full of musical amateurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.<\/span><\/p>\n

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to be all used up when I die.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.<\/span><\/p>\n

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lack of money is the root of all evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people do not pray; they only beg.<\/span><\/p>\n

My reputation grows with every failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.<\/span><\/p>\n

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.<\/span><\/p>\n

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.<\/span><\/p>\n

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.<\/span><\/p>\n

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.<\/span><\/p>\n

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Property is organized robbery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.<\/span><\/p>\n

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?<\/span><\/p>\n

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllables govern the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.<\/span><\/p>\n

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.<\/span><\/p>\n

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.<\/span><\/p>\n

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.<\/span><\/p>\n

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.<\/span><\/p>\n

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.<\/span><\/p>\n

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.<\/span><\/p>\n

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.<\/span><\/p>\n

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Very few people can afford to be poor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue is insufficient temptation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?<\/span><\/p>\n

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?<\/span><\/p>\n

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!<\/span><\/p>\n

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.<\/span><\/p>\n

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.<\/span><\/p>\n

You see things; and you say \u00abWhy?\u00bb But I dream things that never were; and I say \u00abWhy not?\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth is wasted on the young. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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