George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903)

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

George Bernard Shaw
As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

George Bernard Shaw
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

George Bernard Shaw