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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannnot endure it.... Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.