George Bernard Shaw

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I__ an atheist and I thank God for it.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacr

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?