George Bernard Shaw

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

"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."

"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

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

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

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."

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

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

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

"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."

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

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

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

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

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

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

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

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."