It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. George Bernard Shaw good-man add men Morals are a luxury of the rich. George Bernard Shaw luxury rich moral A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. George Bernard Shaw book children world Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat. George Bernard Shaw sanctuary soul acceptance The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. George Bernard Shaw telephones morality car I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. George Bernard Shaw humor stupid funny War does not decide who is right but who is left. George Bernard Shaw morality doe war Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. George Bernard Shaw business men children Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair. George Bernard Shaw flames pregnancy baby It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. George Bernard Shaw life-worth-living worth-living pleasure The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching. George Bernard Shaw teaching children hands That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her. George Bernard Shaw mean father children I do not know what I think until I write it. George Bernard Shaw knows writing thinking Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. George Bernard Shaw real people thinking You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. George Bernard Shaw power hero mother What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults. George Bernard Shaw essence children school She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. George Bernard Shaw desert wish islands Decency cannot be discussed without indecency! George Bernard Shaw decency morality The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination George Bernard Shaw empathy imagination heart You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. George Bernard Shaw wicked men two
