George Bernard Shaw

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Tear thyself from delay.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.