George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.