George Bernard Shaw

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.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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 more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.