Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Property is organized robbery.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
