"A pessimist is a man who thinks..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

“The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”

“I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .”

“There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.”

“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”

“The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”

“Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.[Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]”

“We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.”

“It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.”