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

— George Bernard Shaw · Life quote

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw quote card
Playwright · 1856 – 1950

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

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