George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.