George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.