George Bernard Shaw

"A surgeon is careful not to take out more of the living flesh than is necessary; but a politician is not thus bound."

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too."

"Do not try to live forever; you will not succeed."

"A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"The woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful."

"Martyrs, my dear, are not made by being tortured to death, but by being scorned, mocked, and insulted by the whole world."

"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization."

"I hate intellectual people; all my best friends are wonderful dunces."

"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."

"The British do not expect happiness; I had the impression, all along, that they do not want to talk about it."

"Alcohol is a misunderstandable madness."

"A man who is not afraid is not normal. He is abnormal or he is asleep."

"War is hell, but peace is mere boredom interrupted by commercials."

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

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

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."

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

"The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a mother's again."

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

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

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

"A gentleman is one who puts back more than he takes out."

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

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

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

"Independence is happiness."

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

"The only service a friend can really render is to guard the sleep of another."

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."