183 Quotes By 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.
George Bernard Shaw on learning

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw on life

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw on life

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 on life

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 on life

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw on life

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw on life

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw on life

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw on love

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw on love

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw on love

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw on love