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Famous George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?”
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”
“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
“Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.”
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.”
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
“Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.”