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

— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1922)

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

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

“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.”

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

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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.”

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”