Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized...

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized...

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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...

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six...

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

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

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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

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

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.