George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

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.

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Nature hates calculators.