George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

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

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.