George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.