We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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

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

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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...

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

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...

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

A happy family is but an earlier heaven

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...

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...

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a...

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a...