George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart’s Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes…

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.