Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those...

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those...

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not...

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

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...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your...

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your...

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in...

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in...