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
Related Quotes:
- All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. – shaikh mustafa
- 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
- Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
- Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can’t stay rich if you are poor minded. – Rafaa Khiari
- A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts – the poor or the rich! – Sandeep Sahajpal
- Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. – Ronald Rolheiser
- You can’t change things. That’s life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. – Antonia Michaelis
- Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide. – Vinita Kinra
- The author relates George Bernard Shaw’s sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics. – Lyle Wesley Dorsett
- Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point. – Auliq Ice
- Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes. – Michael Hyatt
- Social networks are so full of wasted time – they could be compared to a waste disposal system. Flush, before you go and waste no time to go. – Will Advise
- If you debate the wise,no matter how poor,they will hearken to wisdom.If you debate the foolish,no matter how rich,they will mock wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck – Celso Cukierkorn
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
- Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
- We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’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
- Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
- 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
- The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. – George Bernard Shaw
- 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
- 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
- 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