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

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical...

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical...

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

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

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity.

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity.

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who...

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who...

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

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,...

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...

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

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...

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then...

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then...

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have...

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have...