“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

— George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot (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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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”

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