George Bernard Shaw

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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Every wall is a door.

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.