George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Patience – the gift of being able to see past the emotion.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.