The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.George Bernard Shaw
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.George Bernard Shaw
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.George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.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 upon the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard Shaw
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.George Bernard Shaw
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.George Bernard Shaw
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.George Bernard Shaw
