More quotes by 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."
"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."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
"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."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."