What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
