George Bernard Shaw

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

For who is pleased with himself.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Tear thyself from delay.

Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.