George Bernard Shaw

"Hope is a delusion and a snare."

"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports enjoys them."

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

"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."

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

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."

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

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

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them."

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

"A comfortable family and a happy fire are excellent substitutes for ambition."

"The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"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 possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not merely to react."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

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

"Independence is middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another."

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

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

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

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

"Martyrdom: the only way a man can become famous without ability."