George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

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.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Necessity does everything well.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

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

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.