George Bernard Shaw: Trending quotes (page 11)

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

“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.”

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

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

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

“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.”

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”

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