George Bernard Shaw

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

In charity there is no excess.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.