14/12/2021
Quotes by Bernard Shaw against Whining and Laziness
“The world consists of slackers who want to have money without working, and the idiots who are willing to work, not rich”.
“Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal idea”.
“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated”.
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it”.
“An ideal husband is a man who thinks he’s married an ideal wife”.
“Being able to endure loneliness and enjoy it is a great gift”.
“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid”.
“Sometimes you have to make people laugh to distract them from the intention to hang you”.
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity”.
“Women somehow immediately guess with whom we are ready to change them. Sometimes even before it comes to our mind”.
“There is no such woman who could say “goodbye” in less than thirty words”.
“It's easier to live with a passionate woman than a dull one. Of course, they are sometimes strangled, but they are seldom deserted”.
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life”.
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it”.
“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach”.
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get”.
“Growing old is boring, but it is the only way to live long”.
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history”.
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”.
“Democracy is a balloon filled with hot air. Fools watch it when it rises and the clever pick their pockets”.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas”.
