You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw 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 Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. George Bernard Shaw expecting fool different The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never. George Bernard Shaw majority minorities sometimes My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen. George Bernard Shaw aquariums white men I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. George Bernard Shaw get-well-soon sickness health Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. George Bernard Shaw light darkness giving A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. George Bernard Shaw idlers education men A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. George Bernard Shaw progress learning men History, sir, will tell lies as usual. George Bernard Shaw usual lying history There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. George Bernard Shaw politeness accomplishment easy Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw marching-on doctors food Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw time birthday funny I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum George Bernard Shaw lunatic-asylums moon men What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. George Bernard Shaw tickling originality world The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. George Bernard Shaw education men science While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? George Bernard Shaw earth animal life A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw fashion witty funny We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for? George Bernard Shaw vegetarian-diet vegetarianism world Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins. George Bernard Shaw muffins week inspiration In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. George Bernard Shaw fighting winning blood