George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

Remember who you are.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.