In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

He who has never hoped can never despair

He who has never hoped can never despair

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about...

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about...

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those...

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those...

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

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.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed...

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed...

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.

(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.

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...

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I want to be all used up when I die.

I want to be all used up when I die.

The harder I work the more I live.

The harder I work the more I live.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or...

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or...

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.