George Bernard Shaw

"I am convinced that the object in having money is to enjoy every consequence of having it."

"The reasonable man adapts to the world, but the unreasonable man insists the world adapt to him. Progress requires the unreasonable."

"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."

"Our worst fear is not our death, but the thought that we have wasted our life."

"The facts of history seldom seem important to those who make it."

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."

"New Zealand is far away from everything."

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

"My works are not about beauty; they are about truth."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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

"Europe is becoming much more like America every day, which of course is a very good thing."

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

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

"Hell is paved with good intentions."

"The way to know the truth is to look at reality and not at books."

"A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"The young are always ready to give those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience."

"Do not follow me; I may not lead. Do not leave me; I may not follow."

"I have learned that the real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures."

"The possibilities of thought training are practically unlimited."

"The test of a gentlemen is never how much you know, but how well you are liked."

"A single conversion may have consequences spreading through a whole life."

"A man who uses many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman; the more ammunition he wastes, the less he is likely to hit the target."

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

"I am not arguing with you—I am telling you."

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

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."