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“I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The Serpent, in Pt. I : In the Beginning, Act I; this quote is sometimes misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy; it is often paraphrased slightly in a few different ways, including:
You see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things as they never were and ask, "Why not?"
Variant: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.”

George Bernard Shaw

#127-128
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart

The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Source: Saint Joan

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909): The Rejected Statement, Pt. I : The Limits to Toleration
1900s

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy.”

George Bernard Shaw

&quot;Rungs of the Ladder&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=HLpRc3rm5b8C, BBC Radio broadcast, 11 July 1932 <br class="br">1930s

“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

George Bernard Shaw Fanny's First Play

Source: Fanny's First Play

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

George Bernard Shaw

#107
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)