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

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

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...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

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

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was...

I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was...

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...

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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...

True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.

True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long life.

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or...

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or...