I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other...

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other...

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an...

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit....

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit....

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood;...

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood;...

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political...

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political...

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.