George Bernard Shaw

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

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

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.