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Irish - Dramatist July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950 Read full biography

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

Communication Illusion Problem Place

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

George Bernard Shaw

Learning History Man Experience

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Change Progress Impossible Without

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

You Imagination Beginning Will

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Life Yourself Finding About Creating

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom Knowledge Ignorance Dangerous

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

Mirror You Face Art

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage Anniversary Man Woman

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw

Learning You Long Never Dirty

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Life Alcohol Endure Anesthesia

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

Myself Live Morality Others

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Man Tiger He Him

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom Future Wise Past Made

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

Success Time Mistakes Never

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

George Bernard Shaw

Good Father Woman Service

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

Believe Liar Punishment Cannot

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Yourself You Window World Better

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Men World Matter Dangerous

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Religion Only Though Hundred

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw

React Possibilities Act Decide Once

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Power Observation Who Got

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Love Love Is Person Difference

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Grow Stop Old Playing Because

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Finance Never End Reach

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

George Bernard Shaw

Life Miracles Us Cannot

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Women Men Long Vote

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