Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Life Quotes

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...

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

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...

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.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you...

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

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,...

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to...

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to...

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

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...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because...

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because...