George Bernard Shaw Best 31 Brilliant Audio Quotes Marriage, Friendship, Happiness, Laughter

“ The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw

“ There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw

“ You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ” 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 on to future generations. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning. ” George Bernard Shaw

“ A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.” George Bernard Shaw

“ As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.” George Bernard Shaw

“ Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” George Bernard Shaw

“ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” George Bernard Shaw

“ Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” George Bernard Shaw

“ You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” George Bernard Shaw

“ I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” George Bernard Shaw

“ The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.” George Bernard Shaw

“ The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” George Bernard Shaw

“ There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.” George Bernard Shaw

“ 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

“ It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.” George Bernard Shaw

“ A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.” George Bernard Shaw

“ What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.” George Bernard Shaw

“ Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.” George Bernard Shaw

“ A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” George Bernard Shaw