George Bernard Shaw

"Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. A life sentence!"

"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

"A woman would always rather have beauty than brains, because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players who have had their parts assigned them by fate."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to think about whether you are happy or not."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"The natural morality of sensible people must be quite irrespective of the morality of the supernatural being they call God."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"I design my monument; but I do not build it."

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

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not."

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

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel—unless he was a good man before he turned forty."

"Beware of the man who does not read books."

"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, they make them."

"A man who has no office to go to is a man who has lost his reason for being."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

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

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

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

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

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

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

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

"The greatest doctor of them all is time."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Independence is what people want to feel when they buy something."