Der 2. November ist der Todestag von George Bernard Shaw. Der 1950 verstorbene Ire hat auch mit seinen Zitaten Weltruf erlangt. Hier eine Auswahl.
- I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
- I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
- Most people do not pray; they only beg.
- My reputation grows with every failure.
- Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Animals are my friends. I don't eat my friends.
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
- Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
- People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.