George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

The public must and will be served.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?