The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront...

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront...

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,...

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

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...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

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 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 first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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...

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films...

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films...

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress

The greater part of progress is the desire for progress