He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. George Bernard Shaw freedomactionmen 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. George Bernard Shaw kwanzaatrue-joypositive-thinking The sound body is the product of the sound mind. George Bernard Shaw sound-bodyhealthmind An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets. George Bernard Shaw imaginationfacesreality Indifference is the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw inhumanityindifferenceessence To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination. George Bernard Shaw romancepainimagination It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. George Bernard Shaw pygmalionhatemouths Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik. George Bernard Shaw paradise-on-earthparadiseearth We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality. George Bernard Shaw averagementhinking No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw problem-solvingquestions-and-answerscreativity Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw jealousyrealrunning If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw parentexamplechildren I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. George Bernard Shaw marriedparentlaw A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. George Bernard Shaw spiritualfoodmen All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. George Bernard Shaw marriagemenbelieve When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw compassionsportsmen If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light. George Bernard Shaw lightgreekhouse Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. George Bernard Shaw sheepfoodthinking When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. George Bernard Shaw slavemasters The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. George Bernard Shaw moneymenchildren
