George Bernard Shaw - Biographical

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

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

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Very few people can afford to be poor.