“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Playwright · 1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

More like this

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

My reputation grows with every failure.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.