To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery. George Bernard Shaw men philosophy civilization When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum. George Bernard Shaw insane insanity world Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death. George Bernard Shaw differences angel men You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell. George Bernard Shaw paradise islam cutting The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw long-ago pigs dirty A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw laughter happiness funny Religion is a good invention in times of stress. George Bernard Shaw invention stress Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. George Bernard Shaw men funny mean Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. George Bernard Shaw selfish work men Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. George Bernard Shaw effort sake art Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. George Bernard Shaw money successful should-have There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. George Bernard Shaw nature success life It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. George Bernard Shaw maturity creatures mature People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. George Bernard Shaw littles people years Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. George Bernard Shaw want people thinking Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it. George Bernard Shaw changed change belief My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. George Bernard Shaw specialty people In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him. George Bernard Shaw cat may men It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal. George Bernard Shaw liberty character men It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw broken-heart heartbreak happiness
