The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

- George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

- George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else

- George Bernard Shaw

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.

- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

- George Bernard Shaw

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

- George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything

- George Bernard Shaw