George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Leave the rest to the gods.

My life is a struggle.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.