George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.