George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.