I’m an atheist and I thank God for it. - George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young. - 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
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
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. - George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. - George Bernard Shaw
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - 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
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! - George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. - 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
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it. - George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - 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
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
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more - George Bernard Shaw
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. - George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation. - George Bernard Shaw
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. - George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. - 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
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
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
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. - George Bernard Shaw
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. - George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. - George Bernard Shaw
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. - 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
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. - George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals. - 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
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. - George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. - 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
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair. - George Bernard Shaw
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. - George Bernard Shaw
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. - George Bernard Shaw
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
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. - 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
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. - George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - 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
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - 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
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. - George Bernard Shaw
The 100% American is 99% an idiot. - George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. - 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
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. - 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
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. - George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. - George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - George Bernard Shaw
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. - George Bernard Shaw
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
Success covers a multitude of blunders. - George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue. - 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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. - 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
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - 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
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. - George Bernard Shaw
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. - George Bernard Shaw
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. - George Bernard Shaw
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
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. - 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
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
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. - 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
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. - 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
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. - George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. - George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. - George Bernard Shaw
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. - George Bernard Shaw
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. - George Bernard Shaw
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. - 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
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
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. - 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
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw
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. - George Bernard Shaw
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. - George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. - George Bernard Shaw
You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not? - 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
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that. - George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. - George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. - George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. - George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. - George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - 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
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. - George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. - George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
History, sir, will tell lies, as usual. - 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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry. - 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 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
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. - George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. - George Bernard Shaw
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. - George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. - George Bernard Shaw
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. - George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - 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 a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. - George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - George Bernard Shaw
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. - George Bernard Shaw
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? - George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. - George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. - George Bernard Shaw
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - 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
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. - George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not. - 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
Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it as his duty. - George Bernard Shaw
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. - George Bernard Shaw
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. - George Bernard Shaw
La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite. - George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - 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
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. - 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
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] - George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw
Spisovateľ je človek, ktorému nestačia knihy tých druhých. - George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw
If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate. - George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. - 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
England and America are two countries seperated by the same language. - 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
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. - George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. - George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... - George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. - George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - 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
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. - George Bernard Shaw
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. - George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - 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
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. - 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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. - George Bernard Shaw
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination - George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. - George Bernard Shaw
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. - George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. - George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - 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
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 see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. - George Bernard Shaw
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. - 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
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. - George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. - George Bernard Shaw
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - 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
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs. - 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
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. - George Bernard Shaw
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. - 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
The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished. - George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - 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
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
In heaven an angel is no one in particular. - George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it. - 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
Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer. - George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. - George Bernard Shaw
Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. - George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw
There is always danger for those who are afraid. - 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
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - 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
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. - George Bernard Shaw
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. - 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
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. - George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw