A Life Spent Making Mistakes Is Not Only More Honorable, But More Useful Than A Life Spent Doing Nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Majesty: When A Stupid Man Is Doing Something He Is Ashamed Of, He Always Declares It As His Duty.
Democracy Is A Device That Ensures We Shall Be Governed No Better Than We Deserve.
This Is The True Joy In Life, The Being Used For A Purpose Recognized By Yourself As A Mighty One; The Being Thoroughly Worn Out Before You Are Thrown On The Scrap Heap; The Being A Force Of Nature Instead Of A Feverish Selfish Little Clod Of Ailments And Grievances Complaining That The World Will Not Devote Itself To Making You Happy.
Patriotism Is Your Conviction That This Country Is Superior To All Other Countries Because You Were Born In It.
The Golden Rule Is That There Are No Golden Rules.
Criminals Do Not Die By The Hands Of The Law. They Die By The Hands Of Other Men.
When A Man Wants To Murder A Tiger He Calls It Sport; When A Tiger Wants To Murder Him He Calls It Ferocity.
Women Upset Everything. When You Let Them Into Your Life, You Find That The Woman Is Driving At One Thing And You’re Driving At Another.
Life Isn’t About Finding Yourself. Life Is About Creating Yourself
Youth Is A Wonderful Thing. What A Crime To Waste It On Children.
One Man That Has A Mind And Knows It Can Always Beat Ten Men Who Haven’t And Don’t.
A Fashion Is Nothing But An Induced Epidemic.
Hegel Was Right When He Said That We Learn From History That Man Can Never Learn Anything From History.
Liberty Means Responsibility. That Is Why Most Men Dread It.
You Are Going To Let The Fear Of Poverty Govern Your Life And Your Reward Will Be That You Will Eat, But You Will Not Live.
He Who Has Never Hoped Can Never Despair.
The Fact That A Believer Is Happier Than A Skeptic Is No More To The Point Than The Fact That A Drunken Man Is Happier Than A Sober One.
The Power Of Accurate Observation Is Commonly Called Cynicism By Those Who Have Not Got It.
There Is No Love Sincerer Than The Love Of Food.
Imagination Is The Beginning Of Creation. You Imagine What You Desire, You Will What You Imagine And At Last You Create What You Will.
We Don’t Bother Much About Dress And Manners In England, Because As A Nation We Don’t Dress Well And We’ve No Manners.
There Are No Secrets Better Kept Than The Secrets That Everybody Guesses.
You’ll Never Have A Quiet World Till You Knock The Patriotism Out Of The Human Race.
Liberty Also Means Responsibility. That Is Why Most Men Dread It.
Youth, Which Is Forgiven Everything, Forgives Itself Nothing: Age, Which Forgives Itself Everything, Is Forgiven Nothing.
Democracy Substitutes Election By The Incompetent Many For Appointment By The Corrupt Few.
Hell Is Full Of Musical Amateurs.
He Who Can, Does. He Who Cannot, Teaches.
Americans Adore Me And Will Go On Adoring Me Until I Say Something Nice About Them.
You See Things; And You Say, ‘Why?’ But I Dream Things That Never Were; And I Say, Why Not?
A Lifetime Of Happiness! No Man Alive Could Bear It: It Would Be Hell On Earth.
The Man Who Writes About Himself And His Own Time Is The Only Man Who Writes About All People And All Time.
If You Cannot Get Rid Of The Family Skeleton, You May As Well Make It Dance.
An Englishman Thinks He Is Moral When He Is Only Uncomfortable.
I Never Resist Temptation Because I Have Found That Things That Are Bad For Me Do Not Tempt Me.
Silence Is The Most Perfect Expression Of Scorn.
A Fool’s Brain Digests Philosophy Into Folly, Science Into Superstition, And Art Into Pedantry. Hence University Education.
Martyrdom… Is The Only Way In Which A Man Can Become Famous Without Ability.
England And America Are Two Countries Separated By A Common Language.
The English Have No Respect For Their Language, And Will Not Teach Their Children To Speak It.
The More Things A Man Is Ashamed Of, The More Respectable He Is.
If All Economists Were Laid End To End, They Would Not Reach A Conclusion.
Life Does Not Cease To Be Funny When People Die Any More Than It Ceases To Be Serious When People Laugh.
I Often Quote Myself. It Adds Spice To My Conversation.
There Are Two Tragedies In Life. One Is Not To Get Your Heart’s Desire. The Other Is To Get It.
When A Stupid Man Is Doing Something He Is Ashamed Of, He Always Declares That It Is His Duty.
It Is Dangerous To Be Sincere Unless You Are Also Stupid.
Without Art The Crudeness Of Reality Would Make The World Unbearable.
The Reasonable Man Adapts Himself To The World; The Unreasonable One Persists In Trying To Adapt The World To Himself. Therefore All Progress Depends On The Unreasonable Man.
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