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

Topics: Success Quotes

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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...

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.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes...

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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...

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life...

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life...

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Woman reduces us all to a common denomination

Woman reduces us all to a common denomination

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to...

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to...

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never...

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never...

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man...

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man...