We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Intelligent Quotes, Life Quotes

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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...

My reputation grows with every failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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...

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that...

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that...

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the...

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the...

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

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

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good...

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good...

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe...

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe...