A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
