George Bernard Shaw

Property is organized robbery.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

They must first judge themselves, that presume to censure others: And such will not be apt to overshoot the Mark. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by Love and Information. And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the [Laurel]. If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.

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

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.