George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Letting go is not giving up.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

Sorrow makes us children again.