George Bernard Shaw

There is only one universal passion fear.

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

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

I trust no one, not even myself.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

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

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.