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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw on silence

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw on success

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw on taste

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw on virtue

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
George Bernard Shaw on wealth

The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw on wealth

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw on writing

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw on writing

Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
Wilbert E Sheer on ambition

Airy ambition, soaring high.
Sheffield on ambition

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on change

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on solitude

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti on freedom

They only babble who practise not reflection.
Richard B. Sheridan on reflection

There is no armor against fate;<
James Shirley on destiny

Immortality--a fate worse than death.
Edgar A. Shoaff on destiny

Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators.
Solomon Short on animals

Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
Don Shula on success

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain.
Philip Sidney on pain

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lydia Sigourney on health