George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.