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Small: Every man over forty is a scoundrel
George Bernard Shaw
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed
George Bernard Shaw
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
George Bernard Shaw
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Better never than late
George Bernard Shaw
"Better never than late"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world
George Bernard Shaw
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended
George Bernard Shaw
"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Animals are my friends... and I dont eat my friends
George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: An index is a great leveller
George Bernard Shaw
"An index is a great leveller"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A happy family is but an earlier heaven
George Bernard Shaw
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence Universit
George Bernard Shaw
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic
George Bernard Shaw
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income
George Bernard Shaw
"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in
George Bernard Shaw
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: An asylum for the sane would be empty in America
George Bernard Shaw
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them
George Bernard Shaw
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of
George Bernard Shaw
"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life
George Bernard Shaw
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes
George Bernard Shaw
"A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A man who has no office to go, to I dont care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception
George Bernard Shaw
"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage
George Bernard Shaw
"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest
George Bernard Shaw
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
George Bernard Shaw
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Those that vow the most are the least sincere
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Those that vow the most are the least sincere"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over aga
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Be just before you are generous
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Be just before you are generous"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Im called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. Im sure I have as much fo
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Pity those who nature abuses never those who abuse nature
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and Ill take kingdoms back from thine
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Deaths a debt his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have l
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: For if there is anything to ones praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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