George Bernard Shaw

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

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

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

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”

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

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

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

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“Syllables govern the world.”

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

“Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.”