George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.