George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.Collection: Life
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.Collection: Men
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.Collection: Courage
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.Collection: Women
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.Collection: Patriotism
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.Collection: Health
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.Collection: Government
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.Collection: Life
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.Collection: Love
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.Collection: Knowledge
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.Collection: Business
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.Collection: Famous
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.Collection: Men
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.Collection: Failure
All great truths begin as blasphemies.Collection: Truth
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.Collection: Power
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.Collection: Great
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.Collection: Power
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.Collection: Money
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.Collection: Art
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.Collection: Learning
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.Collection: Men
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.Collection: Home
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.Collection: Religion
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.Collection: Success
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.Collection: Government
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.Collection: Life
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.Collection: Change
Hell is full of musical amateurs.Collection: Music
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Collection: Courage
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.Collection: Family
Lack of money is the root of all evil.Collection: Money
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.Collection: Knowledge
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.Collection: Home
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.Collection: Life
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.Collection: Happiness
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.Collection: Learning
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.Collection: Marriage
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.Collection: Forgiveness
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.Collection: Dreams
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.Collection: Success
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Collection: Age
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.Collection: History
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.Collection: Communication
Syllables govern the world.Collection: Communication
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.Collection: Sports
My reputation grows with every failure.Collection: Failure
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.