Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

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

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

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

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting...

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

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

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

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...

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy...

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy...

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

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

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

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of...

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of...