George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.