10 more from Bernard Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."


"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The 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."
-- Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893


"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."


"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."


"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."


"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."


"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."


"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."


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


"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."