George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

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

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

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

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

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

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

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

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

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

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

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

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

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

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

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