George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Live, let live, and help live

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

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

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.