Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
– George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
– George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
– George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
– George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
– George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
– George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
– George Bernard Shaw
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
– George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
– George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
– George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure.
– George Bernard Shaw
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
– George Bernard Shaw
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
– George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
– George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
– George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
– George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
– 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
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
– George Bernard Shaw
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
– George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
– George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
– George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
– George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
– George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
– George Bernard Shaw
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
– George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
– George Bernard Shaw
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
– George Bernard Shaw
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
– George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
– George Bernard Shaw
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
– George Bernard Shaw
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
– George Bernard Shaw
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
– 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
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
– George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
– George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
– George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
– George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
– 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
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
– George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
– George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
– George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
– George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
– George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
– George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
– George Bernard Shaw
An index is a great leveller.
– George Bernard Shaw
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
– George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
– George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
– George Bernard Shaw
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
– George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
– George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.