"Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful."
Read quote
104 likes
Quote collection
George Bernard Shaw quotes (page 3 of 68)
1.3K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles."
Read quote
104 likes
"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve."
Read quote
104 likes
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
Read quote
102 likes
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Read quote
100 likes
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
Read quote
95 likes
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
Read quote
95 likes
"All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Read quote
94 likes
"When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul."
Read quote
94 likes
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
Read quote
91 likes
"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."
Read quote
90 likes
"Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite."
Read quote
89 likes
"You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?"
Read quote
89 likes
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
Read quote
87 likes
"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."
Read quote
85 likes
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
Read quote
84 likes
"The harder I work the more I live."
Read quote
84 likes
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
Read quote
83 likes
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
Read quote
82 likes
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
Read quote
82 likes