George Bernard Shaw

(56 votes)   He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(56 votes)   I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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(56 votes)   I want to be all used up when I die.

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(56 votes)   I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

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(56 votes)   Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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(56 votes)   The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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(56 votes)   The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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(56 votes)   When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

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(55 votes)   Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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(54 votes)   A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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(54 votes)   I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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(54 votes)   The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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(53 votes)   I want to be all used up when I die.

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(53 votes)   The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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(53 votes)   The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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