George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.