If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of...

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of...

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

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

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

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.

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

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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never...

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...

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...

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.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor...

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor...