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George Bernard Shaw: We educate one...

George Bernard Shaw: We educate one...

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk...

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George Bernard Shaw: Men are wise...

George Bernard Shaw: Men are wise...

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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George Bernard Shaw: A doctor's reputation...

George Bernard Shaw: A doctor's reputation...

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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George Bernard Shaw: Cruelty would be...

George Bernard Shaw: Cruelty would be...

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really...

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George Bernard Shaw: Crime is only...

George Bernard Shaw: Crime is only...

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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George Bernard Shaw: An Englishman thinks...

George Bernard Shaw: An Englishman thinks...

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Source: 'Man and...

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George Bernard Shaw: Civilized society is...

George Bernard Shaw: Civilized society is...

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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George Bernard Shaw: Build a system...

George Bernard Shaw: Build a system...

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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George Bernard Shaw: Dying is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Dying is a...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

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George Bernard Shaw: Physically there is...

George Bernard Shaw: Physically there is...

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome...

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George Bernard Shaw: Peace is not...

George Bernard Shaw: Peace is not...

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Source: Heartbreak...

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George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

George Bernard Shaw: The true artist...

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy,...

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George Bernard Shaw: The earth is...

George Bernard Shaw: The earth is...

The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.

Source: Heartbreak...

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James Matthew Barrie: Second to the...

James Matthew Barrie: Second to the...

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Source: Peter Pan.
-- James...

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Ogden Nash: Home is heaven...

Ogden Nash: Home is heaven...

Home is heaven and orgies are vile
But you need an orgy, once in a while.


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Ogden Nash: Whether elected or...

Ogden Nash: Whether elected or...

Whether elected or appointed
He considers himself the Lord's annointed,
And indeed the ointment lingers on...

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Ogden Nash: If you don't...

Ogden Nash: If you don't...

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to...

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Ogden Nash: Candy,<br>Is dandy,<br>But Liquor,<br>Is...

Ogden Nash: Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is...

Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is quicker.


Source: Reflections on...

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Ogden Nash: Some people's money...

Ogden Nash: Some people's money...

Some people's money is merited
And other people's is inherited.


Source: The...

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