George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.


The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.


The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.


Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.


Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.


Success covers a multitude of blunders.


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.


We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.


Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.


It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.


It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.


Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.


Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.


Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.


The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.


It is most unwise for people in love to marry


Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.


A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.


Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.


To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.


Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.


Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.