George Bernard Shaw ( 10 of 199 )
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and read more
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only read more
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for
established institutions as well as those who are too read more
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for
established institutions as well as those who are too good for
them.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that read more
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said read more
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, read more
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
