George Bernard Shaw

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

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

"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination"

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

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

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

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]"

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

"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."

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

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

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

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

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."