The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Poverty Quotes

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

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,...

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next...

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next...

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to...

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to...

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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...

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then...

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then...

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

He who has never hoped can never despair

He who has never hoped can never despair

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...