Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old George Bernard Shaw quotes, George Bernard Shaw sayings, and George Bernard Shaw proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
There is no sincerer love than the love of ice cream.George Bernard Shaw
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It is really an atrocious institution. We must be gluttonous because it is Christmas. We must be drunken because it is Christmas. . . . We must buy things that nobody wants and give them to people we don't like; because the mass of the population, including the all-powerful middle-class tradesman, depends on a week of license and brigandage, waste and intemperance, to clear off its outstanding liabilities at the end of the year. George Bernard Shaw
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.George Bernard Shaw
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself everything. is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
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We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.George Bernard Shaw
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.George Bernard Shaw
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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
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.George Bernard Shaw
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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.George Bernard Shaw
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
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You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'George Bernard Shaw
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.George Bernard Shaw
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.George Bernard Shaw
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Life was not meant to be easy, my child. But take courage, it can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.George Bernard Shaw
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It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man’s spirit is devil's work.George Bernard Shaw
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.George Bernard Shaw
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.George Bernard Shaw
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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
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents’ first duty.George Bernard Shaw