A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
George Bernard ShawO Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
George Bernard ShawI like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
George Bernard ShawI am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
George Bernard Shaw