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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

End

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Dance

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

Children

Example

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

Heaven

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw

America

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw

Americans

Will