George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

Old guys can still do fun things.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.