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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

George Bernard Shaw

Kings

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

Man

May

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience

Men

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Old

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

George Bernard Shaw

Money

Aristocracy

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue

Temptation

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

People

Poor

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Health

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

George Bernard Shaw

Dying

Merit