Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not...

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

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

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its...

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

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,...

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Property is organized robbery.

Property is organized robbery.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely...

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely...

Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease

Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease