George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

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.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is false, or at least incomplete.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.