George Bernard Shaw

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

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

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.

Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights…sexual intercourse!…His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.