183 Quotes By 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 on courage

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw on courage

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw on dreams

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw on experience

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw on experience

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw on experience

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 on failure

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw on failure

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw on failure

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw on family

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

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 on family

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw on famous

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 fear

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw on fitness

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw on food

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

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw on food