George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.