A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's...

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Syllables govern the world.

Syllables govern the world.