George Bernard Shaw

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"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."

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

"Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."

"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

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

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

"My reputation grows with every failure."

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population."

"Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"Syllables govern the world."

"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

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

"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."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."