George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Do or do not. There is no try.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.