Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
George Bernard Shaw
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
Artist
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Music Critic
Photographer
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw
Woman
Inspirational
Two
Women
Babyhood
Men
Motherhood
Perpetual
Prefer
Lots
More quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
George Bernard Shaw
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair
George Bernard Shaw
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
George Bernard Shaw
In a living society every day is a day of judgment and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
George Bernard Shaw
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
