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  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

    Forgiveness   Blow   Men  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
  • Activity is the only road to knowledge.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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

    Sports   Men   Compassion  
    1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.
  • Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

    Death   Peace   Ubuntu  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow
  • When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

    Men   Giving   Gentleman  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

    Wise   Witty   Stupid  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
  • Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

    Men   Hands   Law  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow
  • If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow
  • Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice"
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

    'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3
  • Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
  • The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

    Man and Superman (1903) act 1
  • Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

    Funny   Life   Marriage  
    "Maxims for Revolutionists (#1)". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.
  • Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

    Strong   Mind   Reason  
    'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Reason'
  • He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903). A further extension appears in Jacob M. Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes (1955): "Those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do anything at all, teach the teachers."
  • This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

    Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)
  • A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

    Mother   Art   Children  
    Man and Superman (1903) act 1
  • Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

    Men   Rope   Beast  
    "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist".
  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

    Man and Superman act 1 (1903)
  • A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

    Funny   Education   Art  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

    Wise   Men   Sky  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Religion"
  • Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.314, e-artnow
  • Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

    Self   Denial   Virtue  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Virtues and Vice"
  • Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow
  • Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"
  • All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

    Art   Peace   Men  
    'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3
  • Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

    Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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