Quotes by Bernard Shaw

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”

“Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.”

“No, no, no, no. How often must I tell you that we are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the responsibilities of our future.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“BRASSBOUND. I don't say I was happy in it; but I wasn't unhappy, because I wasn't drifting. I was steering a course and had work in hand. Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. LADY CICELY. Sometimes he won't even stop to trouble about whether other people are happy or not.”