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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Youth is wasted on the young.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Topic: Amusement
Source: None
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: None
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at
anything but his art.
Topic: Artists
Source: Man and Superman
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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and
remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother
woman.
Topic: Artists
Source: Man and Superman
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Bad artists always admire each others work.
Topic: Artists
Source: Man and Superman
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work.
Topic: Artists
Source: Man and Superman
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.
Topic: Beginnings
Source: Major Barbara
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Topic: Cleverness
Source: None
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Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Cowards
Source: None
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Topic: Cynicism
Source: None
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Topic: Danger
Source: None
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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Man and Superman
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... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".
Topic: Democracy
Source: None
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire. The other is to get it.
Topic: Desire
Source: Man and Superman (act IV)
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Topic: Desire
Source: None
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Topic: Difficulty
Source: None
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When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.
Topic: Duty
Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Topic: Duty
Source: None
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.
Topic: Earth
Source: None
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Topic: Experience
Source: None
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
Topic: Experience
Source: None
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Topic: Family
Source: None
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated
fashions of the generation before last.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Topic: Fashion
Source: None
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
Topic: Flattery
Source: John Bull's Other Island
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Topic: Food
Source: Man and Superman
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.
Topic: Gambling
Source: None
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
Topic: God
Source: None
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