Déanann George Bernard Shaw Smaointe agus Inspioráid a lua

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Youth is wasted on the young.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.