George Bernard Shaw

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.