You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

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...

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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

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

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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...

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't...

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't...

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.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

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...

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.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

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

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