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George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright and 1935 Nobel prize winner; b. 1856; d. 1950 · 22 aphorisms · one comment
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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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Comment# · Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Comment# · Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in
Altruism and Cynicism and
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Comment# · Fair (168 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Comment# · Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Comment# · Fair (189 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Comment# · Fair (194 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
Comment# · Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in
Altruism and Cynicism and
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Comment# · Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in
Happiness and Misery and
Wealth and Poverty
Comment# · Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Comment# · Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
Comment# · Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Comment# · Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
Comment# · Fair (222 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
Comment# · Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in
Success and Failure and
Work and Recreation
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