George Bernard Shaw

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

We all really basically have a lot of magic … it’s only those of us that choose to accept it that really understand it.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

I want to be all used up when I die.