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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw

Vitality

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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

George Bernard Shaw

Time

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

George Bernard Shaw

Profession

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

George Bernard Shaw

Women

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

Conversation

I want to be all used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

Want

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.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

Intelligence

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw

God