In the words of George Bernard Shaw:
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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