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
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- HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. – George Bernard Shaw
- It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’sto keep unmarried as long as he can. – George Bernard Shaw
- Any woman can open her mouth and speak to a man. It takes a special woman to open her mouth and strengthen a man. – CL Brown
- There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors. – Sanhita Baruah
- He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. – Charles Baudelaire
- One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. – George Bernard Shaw
- No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
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- [Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
- What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. – George Bernard Shaw
- Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. – George Orwell
- Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun. – Gianni Rodari
- Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin
- If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
- Science never solves a problem without creating ten more – George Bernard Shaw
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
- There is always danger for those who are afraid. – George Bernard Shaw
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
- [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw
- You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw
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- 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
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- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
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- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw
- As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. – George Bernard Shaw
- Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
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- If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all. – George Bernard Shaw
- At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. – George Bernard Shaw
- 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
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- Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
- 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