George Bernard Shaw

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to prepare for the long haul, the rise and fall, and let neither define your sense of self.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.