While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.