George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Syllables govern the world.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.