George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest of the world goes on with old measurements and expects them to fit.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never indulge in so-called 'common-sense'.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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

An honest man is always a child.

Marriage is an institution that allows a man to lose his bachelor's degree and his master's degree at the same time.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, and the rest willing to let them.

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

The true joy in life is to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The only man who is educated is the man who has learned how to learn; and who has learned how to adapt and change.

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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manners for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not need to believe in God; he can feel God.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.