George Bernard Shaw

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.