George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.