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

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are...

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...

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

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...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

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...

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

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...

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave...

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave...

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to...

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to...

The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And...

The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And...

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.