George Bernard Shaw
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say nowCollection: Environmental
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.Collection: Years
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.Collection: Doctors
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.Collection: Funny
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.Collection: World
What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.Collection: Self
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.Collection: Bible
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.Collection: Truth
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.Collection: Death
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.Collection: Men
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.Collection: Learning
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.Collection: Witty
I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.Collection: Teaching
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.Collection: Inspirational
Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.Collection: Opportunity
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.Collection: Self Control
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.Collection: Betrayal
Our first duty is not to be poor.Collection: Firsts
I love little children too but I don’t cut off their heads and stick them in vases.Collection: Fun
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man’s will and his environment: in a word, of problem.Collection: Real
The real pleasure of one’s life is the devotion to a great objective of one’s consideration.Collection: Real
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.Collection: Real