Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.


Four Plays by Bernard Shaw (ed. Pocket Books, 1968) - ISBN: 9780671468637

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between...

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between...

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between...

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between...