George Bernard Shaw: Frases em inglês (página 11)

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”

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

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

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

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”