I leave you the best phrases of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer, playwright, critic and political activist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 and the Oscar in 1938. He wrote more than 60 works, the most outstanding being Man and superman, Pygmalion and Santa Juana.
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-Life does not try to find yourself. Life tries to create yourself.
-People who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
-We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.
-Give a man health and a direction to follow, and he will never bother about whether he is happy or not.
-Youth is wasted on the young.
-Freedom means responsibility. This is why most men fear it.
-Mankind soon tires of everything, especially what it enjoys the most.
-Those who cannot change their mind, cannot change anything.
-Most people go to the grave with their music still inside.
-We don't stop playing because we get old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-The possibilities are numerous, once we decide to act and not react.
-My reputation grows with each failure.
-Virtue does not consist in abstaining from vice, but in not wanting it.
-After all, the wrong path always leads somewhere.
-The true moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
-Make a rule never to give a child a book that you would not read yourself.
-A gentleman is someone who puts more into the world than he takes.
-The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
-Try to get what you like or you will be forced to like what they give you.
-A man who has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who do not have it and do not know it.
-Some men see things as they are and wonder why. Others dream things that never were and wonder why not.
-Although all society is based on intolerance, all progress is based on tolerance.
-As long as we have a wish, we have a reason to live. Satisfaction is death.
-The reasonable man adapts to the world; the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the world to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-A winner is one who gets up and looks for the circumstances he wants, and if he doesn't find them, he makes them.
-A life dedicated to making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life dedicated to doing nothing.
-All great truths begin as great blasphemies.
-If you have built castles in the air, your work is not lost; now place the bases under them.
-Man can climb to the highest peaks, but he cannot live there long.
-The border between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of seeing things.
-Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same mistake a second time.
-The healthy body is the product of the healthy mind.
-Just do what needs to be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
-A government that robs Pedro to pay Pablo can always count on Pablo's support.
-The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been carried out.
-We become wiser not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future.
-Beware of false knowledge; they are more dangerous than ignorance.
-Better keep clean and shiny; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
-A happy family is an early heaven.
-There is no more sincere love than the love for food.
-In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
-Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they come to a position of power, corrupt power.
-Beware of the man who does not hit you back: neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
-Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.
-If there was nothing wrong in the world, there would be nothing to do.
-The first condition for progress is the elimination of censorship.
-He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
-If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable is man to learn from experience.
-If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, better teach it to dance.
-We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than to consume wealth without producing it.
-Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
-Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he was reading made him a madman.
-A perpetual vacation is a good definition of hell.
-Life has only two tragedies. One is not reaching your heart's desire; the other is to achieve it.
-You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
-When a man wants to kill a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to kill him he calls it ferocity.
-People are sometimes more attached to their burdens than the burdens attach to them.
-Now we know that the soul is the body and the body, the soul. They tell us that they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them enslave our bodies.
-Alcohol is the anesthesia with which we support the operation of life.
-A pessimist is a man who thinks that everyone is as unpleasant as himself, and hates them for it.
-The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough free time to ask yourself if you are happy or not.
-When a man says that money can do everything, that solves it; it has nothing.
-The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
- Murder is the most extreme form of censorship.
-The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
-First love is just a bit of madness and a lot of curiosity.
-The minority is sometimes right; most are always wrong.
-There are no better kept secrets than the secrets that everyone guesses.
-The war does not decide who is right, but who is left.
-Without art, the harshness of reality would make the world unbearable.
-Hate is the coward's revenge for being bullied.
-Everything happens to everyone, sooner or later, if there is enough time.
-The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from life at home.
-He who has never had hope cannot despair.
-The most intolerable suffering is the one that produces the prolongation of the most intense pleasure.
- Possessing glory and youth is too much for a mortal.
-I learned a long time ago not to fight a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
-I don't like to feel at home when I'm abroad.
-Youth is a disease that heals over the years.
-I often quote myself. Add spice to my conversation.
-The fact that a believer can be happier than a skeptic is as true as saying that the drunkard is happier than the sober man.
-I'm an atheist and I thank God for that.
-Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
-Imagination is the beginning of creation. We imagine what we want, we want what we imagine and, finally, we create what we want.
-The old are dangerous: they do not care what will happen to the world.
-Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
-Most people do not pray; they just beg.
-It is not worth doing anything unless the consequences can be serious.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-I would like to take you seriously, but doing so would be a challenge to your intelligence.
-Silence is the most perfect expression of contempt.
-He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.
-Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
-In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
-Christianity could be good if someone tried to practice it.
-The only secrets are the secrets that they keep to themselves.
-Without good customs, human society would be intolerable and impossible.
-Life does not stop being comic because a man dies, nor does it stop being tragic because a man laughs.
-Fear can take men to any extreme.
-Blessed is he who maintains a profession that coincides with his hobby.
-Life at home is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.
-When a foolish man does something of which he is ashamed, he always declares that it is his duty.
-When two people are under the influence of the most violent, the most insane, the most illusory and the most fleeting of passions, they are asked to swear that they will continually remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part.
-The problem with her is that she does not have the power of conversation, but she has the power of speech.
-It is the mark of a truly intelligent person moving through statistics.
-There is only one religion, although there are a hundred versions of it.
-It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also foolish.
-The soul is too precious a gift for God to give to man for nothing. This one has to win it, being or doing something.
- There is no merit to suffer.
-My form of joking is telling the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
-The perfect love story is one that is done entirely by mail.
-Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic about it.
-No one attacks a lion when the field is full of sheep.
-Money is nothing, but a lot of money, that's something else.
-I'm afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy
-Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed.
-Self-sacrifice allows us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
-Hell is full of amateur musicians.
-If I was nice to them they wouldn't take me seriously.
-Those who do not know how to live, must at least die with merit.
-If women were demanding about the character of men, they would never marry.
-The marriage is so successful because it combines the maximum temptation with the maximum opportunity.
-We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the money aristocracy.
-If I were a woman, I would refrain from talking to any man or doing something for one until I have a vote.
-If you want to tell someone the truth, make them laugh! Otherwise, you will get killed.
-The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of man.
-A genuine intellectual strives to improve his sense of humor.
-A little learning is dangerous, but we must take that risk because a little is what our larger minds can sustain.
-Why should we accept the pope's sexual advice? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
-Human beings are the only animals of which I am completely and truly afraid.
-There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a fanatic.
-I'm Christian. That forces me to be a communist.