George Bernard Shaw

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“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.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“The people who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”