George Bernard Shaw

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought – an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

My reputation grows with every failure.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.

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.