New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Jokes Quotes

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.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers...

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers...

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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 dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

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