More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
  2. I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
  3. It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
  4. If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
  5. Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows dont understand is that you must get at a man thr…
  6. When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine ca…
  7. You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
  8. Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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