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- Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no…
- Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
- The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
- No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
- My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
- As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
- We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
- Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
- You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last,…
- It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
- The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the…
- Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
- Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
- I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
- I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be…
- If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble…
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
- I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when…
- I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing:…
- No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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