George Bernard Shaw

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.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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

Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.