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- We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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