People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't…

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

The harder I work the more I live.

The harder I work the more I live.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage...

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

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.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

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

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he...

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he...

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the...

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's...

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness