G. Bernard Shaw Quotations A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Youth is wasted on the young.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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