A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

General Douglas MacArthur

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

Scott Adams

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

George Bernard Shaw

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw

In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.

George Bernard Shaw

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the 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

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

George Bernard Shaw

You can almost reach out and touch Ed Turner's impact on CNN. His standards were so high. The things that this network does routinely, and the kinds of people that work for CNN ... are a testament to what Ed Turner stood for.

George Bernard Shaw

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane.

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these 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

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.

George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King Jr.

You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?

George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

George Bernard Shaw

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw

I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was.

George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'

George Bernard Shaw

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

History, sir, will tell lies, as usual.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

George Bernard Shaw

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

He never ran from personal pain, but he rushed to help you with yours, ... He was rabbi, priest, chaplain and mullah when he was not morale officer-in-chief.

George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Aristotle

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Scott Adams

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mahatma Ghandi

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.

Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

They should rule who are able to rule best.

Aristotle

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

Bob Dylan

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Bob Dylan

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

May you live to be a hundred years old, and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.

Mahatma Ghandi

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Oprah Winfrey

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Nikki Giovanni

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.

General Douglas MacArthur

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

You are remembered for the rules you break.

General Douglas MacArthur

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Oprah Winfrey

My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.

General Douglas MacArthur

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

Oprah Winfrey

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

Carl Jung

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

Carl Jung

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung