George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

A picture is a poem without words.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.