Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you”

“The family is one of natures masterpieces.”

“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: theres always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires”

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”

“Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it”

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; thats the essence of inhumanity”

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.”

“The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends”

“You know youre getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like”

“I guess I dont so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.”

“Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.”

“Im fat, but Im thin inside... theres a thin man inside every fat man.”

“It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a mans faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a mans spirit is devils work.”

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

“If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.”

“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”