Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!