George Bernard Shaw

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

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

All promise outruns performance.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.