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His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
– Barbara W Tuchman

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  2. [H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. – George Bernard Shaw
  3. Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings – Barbara W Tuchman
  4. Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher – Barbara W Tuchman
  5. One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. – Barbara W Tuchman
  6. He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. – Barbara W Tuchman
  7. Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. – Elizabeth George
  8. War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
  9. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more – George Bernard Shaw
  10. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
  11. There is always danger for those who are afraid. – George Bernard Shaw
  12. If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
  13. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw
  14. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  15. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
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  18. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. – George Bernard Shaw
  19. Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
  20. Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? – George Bernard Shaw
  21. Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
  22. We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw
  23. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
  24. The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. – George Bernard Shaw
  25. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
  26. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
  27. Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
  28. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
  29. HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge… – George Bernard Shaw
  30. HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge… – George Bernard Shaw
  31. The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. – George Bernard Shaw
  32. If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all. – George Bernard Shaw
  33. At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. – George Bernard Shaw
  34. I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. – George Bernard Shaw
  35. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. – George Bernard Shaw
  36. A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
  37. [Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
  38. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  39. What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. – George Bernard Shaw
  40. How can she? She’s incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? – George Bernard Shaw

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