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

— George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, Preface (1911)

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.”

“Success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.”

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.”

“Life is our dictionary.”

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”