George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

He who has never hoped can never despair

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I didn't think; I experimented.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

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.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You don't stop learning because you grow old. You grow old because you stop learning.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.