Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

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.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

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

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he...

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he...

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

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

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we...

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we...

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most...

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most...