26th July: George Bernard Shaw's birthday

On this date in 1856 George Bernard Shaw, was born. He wrote over 60 plays, including Candida, Pygmalion and Saint Joan. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. 10 Shaw quotes:

1. If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
2. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
3. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
4. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
5. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
6. Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
7. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
8. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.
9. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
10. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.