Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

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

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

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

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.

There is only one universal passion fear.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.