Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

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

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

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

"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."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"My reputation grows with every failure."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

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

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

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing 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; do not outlive yourself."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

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

"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Very few people can afford to be poor."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

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

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"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."