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Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
- George Bernard Shaw
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
- George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
- George Bernard Shaw
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
- George Bernard Shaw
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 onto future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
- George Bernard Shaw