The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
George Bernard ShawLife on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
George Bernard ShawThe 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