Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste ... -George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw , Playwright
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes to Explore

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

Dreams Quotes to Explore

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself....
The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don't really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Beca...
I've always felt like my job is to protect my sister. Even growing up, on the playground, when my sister was too shy, I would speak for her... I even ...
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash o...
When you have goals and dreams and things that you've been wanting your whole life, and then they actually start happening and you start checking thin...
My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do....
Nobody is going to love and honor your dreams like yourself. It's really not looking for someone to be your superhero but for us to save ourselves and...
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams....
The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growin...
I don't really think dreams have real meaning. Some people believe in that. I just think it's your brain, after a day of crazy random pieces of inform...