George Bernard Shaw

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

There are those that are void of all mercy, but when it comes the time that they are on their knees, they plead for it. Those that were born with the art of deception, never sincere with their words or actions. But mercy is not theirs to take, only for you to give. Never compromise your standards, your beliefs and become like the ones who you are fighting against, but stay resolute to who you are.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.