George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Life
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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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.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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