George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist Quotes
Life is no 'brief candle' to me. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
Science is always wrong; it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Music is the brandy of the damned.
My life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.