"What is life but a series of..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.”

“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.”

“If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.”

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”

“If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”

“There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.”

“It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth”

“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”

“Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.”