George Bernard Shaw

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Wake up, lift your head, open your eyes, and dream. Gaze softly into your heart’s whispers. Notice the pull of your belly and that which makes you come alive. Let your soul speak, beckoning you to embark on that one voyage you can no longer let lie.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.