George Bernard Shaw

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

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.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Language is the archives of history.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Our own life has to be our message.