George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Already know you that which you need.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.