George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Property is organized robbery.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau Henry Thoreaus auntHenry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.