George Bernard Shaw

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.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.