If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard ShawNo severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
George Bernard ShawThe pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
George Bernard ShawThe medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.
George Bernard Shaw