George Bernard Shaw

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.