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| George Bernard Shaw once sent two tickets to the opening night of one of his plays to Winston Churchill with the following note: "Bring a friend, if you have one." Churchill wrote back, returning the two tickets and excused himself as he had a previous engagement. He also attached the following: "Please send me two tickets for the next night, if there is one." | |
| I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Success covers a multitude of blunders." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw | |
| Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" [No, it wasn't J.F. Kennedy. Ed.] | |
| Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
| The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw | |
