George Bernard Shaw

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.