George Bernard Shaw

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.