George Bernard Shaw

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.