I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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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.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that...

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that...

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a...

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Syllables govern the world.

Syllables govern the world.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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...

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

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

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

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything...

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything...