Playwright And Critic
George Bernard Shaw
Jul 26, 1856 - Nov 02, 1950
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabia...
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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 to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Write your Sad times in Sand,Write your Good times in Stone.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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