George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

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.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.