George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

Property is organized robbery.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.