Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.