George Bernard Shaw

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Remember where you came from.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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.