George Bernard Shaw

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

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

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.