Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
— George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Youth is wasted on the young.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
