Comparing Apples to Ideas

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw

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"A cigarette is a stick of tobacco with fire at one end and a fool at the other." -- George Bernard Shaw, found on Jokes and Humor Weblog

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long." -- George Bernard Shaw, link via cara.bloggedup.com

Progress | "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -- George Bernard Shaw

Georger Bernard Shaw on Critics

"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." -- George Bernard Shaw

Courage | "I have never thought much of the courage of the liontamer; inside the cage he is, at least, safe from other men." -- George Bernard Shaw

Conversation | "I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation." -- George Bernard Shaw

Beauty | "Beauty is all very well at sight, but who can look at it when it has been in the house three days?" -- George Bernard Shaw

"Why, the whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins, and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors." -- G.B. Shaw, epistle to Arthur Bingham Walkley, via I Need A Stiff Drink

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw

"I can lose a friend like that by my death but not by his." -- George Bernard Shaw

"If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw, found on the markerboard at the doctor's office

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." -- George Bernard Shaw

"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." -- George Bernard Shaw

"The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd." -- George Bernard Shaw

"This is the true joy in life -- that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not deote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. 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. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -- George Bernard Shaw

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." -- George Bernard Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw