A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

I want to be all used up when I die.

I want to be all used up when I die.

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

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

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.

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...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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...

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity...

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

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.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

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...

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a...

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a...