Related:

• Life is no brief candle to me. I is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  George Bernard Shaw...
• Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• I was brought up in the other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.
  I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear....
• Few people think more than two or three times a yea
  I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week....
• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. -- George Bernard Shaw
• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superma...
• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• You see things; and say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?
  ' -- George Bernard Shaw...