George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.