A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard ShawThe people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard ShawUse 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 ShawThe 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.
George Bernard ShawTags: life progress philosophy philosophy-of-life
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
George Bernard ShawSi usa uno specchio di vetro per guardare il viso; e si usano le opere d’arte per guardare la propria anima.
George Bernard ShawIf you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
George Bernard ShawTags: fear doubt procrastination
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."
[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]
Tags: war foreign-policy literature prejudice travel fighting cruelty xenophobia narrow-mindedness
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
George Bernard ShawTags: equality irony racial-discrimination
He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.
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