George Bernard Shaw

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.