George Bernard Shaw

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. ”

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ”

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ”

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. ”

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. ”

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. ”

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

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ”

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ”