The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

—George Bernard Shaw

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.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

—George Bernard Shaw

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If I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After

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The last thing I need right now is another reminder of how much of my life I wasted on him.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

—Nicolas Chamfort

Ninety percent of [my salary] I spent on booze and women, and the other 10 percent I wasted.

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Any time not spent on love is wasted.

—Torquato Tasso

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