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

— 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.”

“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.”

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.”

“There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself.”

“Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

“At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin.”