George Bernard Shaw

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Property is organized robbery.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

They say that history repeats itself, so if you don’t learn from the past you will make the same mistakes. So I have become an archaeologist of my own history. Digging up what has long since been buried, exhuming those forgotten fragments. Trying to distinguish what is real from folklore, trying to gain understanding, rather than relying on myths.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.