Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

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

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

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

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it...

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a...

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a...

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who...

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who...