If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
In Ireland they try to make a cat clean by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and made it possible for a stranger to travel there without being killed by the native Danakils he was rendering the same service to the world as we had in rendering by the same methods (including poison gas) in the north west provinces of India, and had already completed in Australia, […]
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
