George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Cultivate kindness today and always.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.