George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Be better. Be better at everything. Be better fathers… Men can be better husbands, which is – be a part of your family’s life. Do the dishes. Don’t babysit your children. You don’t babysit your own children. Be engaged. Don’t just think going to work and coming home makes you a man. Being a father, being engaged, all that stuff is important. Be a better employer. When you are sitting at a seat of power at a table of any kind and you look around you just see you, it’s just you and a bunch of men around a table, on a golf course, making deals, and you allow that to happen, and you’re okay with that – be better.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I am stronger than my fear.

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.