George Bernard Shaw

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

Some life lessons don’t ever change. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.