Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Age Quotes

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

Property is organized robbery.

Property is organized robbery.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it...

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...

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

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

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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...

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Neither blame or praise yourself.