There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window...

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

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

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

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about...

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about...

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which...

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you...

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you...

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown...

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown...