George Bernard Shaw

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.