Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. George Bernard Shaw privilege-and-responsibility kwanzaa true-joy 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 mistake happiness men I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature? George Bernard Shaw forgiving mind men It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation. George Bernard Shaw doctors meat years We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw future wisdom wise The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw eulogy learning teaching Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw success time inspirational The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me. George Bernard Shaw tailors communication sensible I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain. George Bernard Shaw islam pain men The harder I work the more I live. George Bernard Shaw true-joy good-luck work Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life. George Bernard Shaw inner-peace sacrifice happiness A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. George Bernard Shaw men The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom. George Bernard Shaw business golf men I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am. George Bernard Shaw intelligent sound Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace. George Bernard Shaw palaces progress stones We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. George Bernard Shaw atmosphere skins real The most sincere form of love is love for food George Bernard Shaw sincere food love-is Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw gratitude inspirational life It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved. George Bernard Shaw faces may mean Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby George Bernard Shaw pygmalion hobbies men
