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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.