“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

— George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", in Man and Superman (1905)

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.”

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

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“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”