Some of his most famous quotes.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
- Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them
- Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
- Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw
- Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Comments
I don't care whether he was genius or mad man? I take his words (only those) which seem to be true.
Thanks once more.
Best Wishes
-Thank you,
-Mark
Is this possible?