George Bernard Shaw

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.