George Bernard Shaw

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

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

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

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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