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. ”

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ”

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

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. ”

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. ”

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ”

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ”

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. ”

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. ”

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community. ”