George Bernard Shaw
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.Collection: Funny
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.Collection: Lying
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.Collection: Believe
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.Collection: Wisdom
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.Collection: Inspirational
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.Collection: Knowledge
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.Collection: Wise
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.Collection: Doctors
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.Collection: Money
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.Collection: Men
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.Collection: Freedom
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.Collection: Desire
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.Collection: Happiness
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.Collection: Missing
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.Collection: America
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followersCollection: Islam
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.Collection: Humor
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.Collection: Motivational
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.Collection: Waiting
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.Collection: Humor
Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.Collection: Opportunity
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.Collection: Running
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.Collection: Expectations
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.Collection: Music
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.Collection: Food
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.Collection: Switzerland
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.Collection: Maturity
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.Collection: Children
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.Collection: Character
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.Collection: Men
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.Collection: Movie
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.Collection: Mean
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.Collection: Marriage
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.Collection: Religious
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.Collection: Capacity
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.Collection: Imagine
I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.Collection: Believe
Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.Collection: Dream
There is only one universal passion fear.Collection: Passion
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.Collection: People
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.Collection: Men
There is nothing in religion but fiction.Collection: Religious
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.Collection: Lying
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.Collection: Life
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.Collection: Savages
Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.Collection: Light
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.Collection: Dog
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.Collection: Violence
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.Collection: Animal