“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“War does not decide who is right but who is left.”
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
“English is the easiest language to speak badly.”
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
“Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers.”
“A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.”
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
“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.”
“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”
“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.”
“Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“The harder I work the more I live.”
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
“Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.”
“The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.”
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“To be a champion you must live like one.”
“Life is too short for men to take it seriously.”
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
“Some people look at the world and say ‘why?’ Some people look at the world and say ‘why not?’”
“The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.”
“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.”
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
“Better never than late.”
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.”
“The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.”
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
“All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”
“I want to be all used up when I die.”
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”
“Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.”
“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
“Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.”
“I don’t know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.”
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.”
“I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.”
“I never expect a soldier to think.”
“Morality is not respectability.”
“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.”
“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”
“If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.”
“All great art and literature is propaganda.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”
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