George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.