George Bernard Shaw

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The sun is but a morning star.

No matter how hard the past is, we can always begin again.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.