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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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, make them.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.