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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare on success

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare on success

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare on temptation

Thought is free.
William Shakespeare on thoughts

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare on thoughts

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare on want

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare on will

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
William Shakespeare on women

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 on affection

Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferio
George Bernard Shaw on age

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
George Bernard Shaw on alcohol

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw on capitalism

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw on change

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw on change

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw on dreams

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw on family

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
George Bernard Shaw on family

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
George Bernard Shaw on law

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of
George Bernard Shaw on love

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw on morals