George Bernard Shaw

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.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Let us try what love will do.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.