An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

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.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

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...

My reputation grows with every failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

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...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the...

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the...

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover...

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

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...

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....

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs...

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs...