George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

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.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

The first wealth is health.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.