George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life … would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.