George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is one of my favorite sources of wit and wisdom. Here are several other of his observations.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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

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

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

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.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

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

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

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