I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Confidence Quotes, Courage Quotes

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical...

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical...

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on...

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on...

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

Property is organized robbery.

Property is organized robbery.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another...

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another...

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge...

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge...

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life...

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life...