When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
From George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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