George Bernard Shaw

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

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

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”

“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.”

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

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.”

“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”

“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”