George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.