George Bernard Shaw

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

A lot of power and bravery is practice. And some of that is taking the risk to try and be at the table. And then when you’re at the table, taking that first risk to open your mouth and risk being rejected.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.