Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its...

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its...

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery, it's the sincerest form of learning.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery, it's the sincerest form of learning.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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...

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

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

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't...

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't...

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...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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

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

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a...

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a...

Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat...

Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat...