Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
George Bernard ShawTags: marriage
Човешките същества са единствените животни, от които аз съм напълно и истински уплашен.
George Bernard ShawThe man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard ShawWhat you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
George Bernard ShawYou know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
George Bernard ShawHell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
George Bernard ShawThe risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
George Bernard ShawTags: liberty ignorance self-helplessness
But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
George Bernard ShawTags: liberty freedom morals rights
HIGGINS
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
PICKERING
At what, for example?
HIGGINS
Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard ShawTags: money
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