Random Quotes
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
He who has never hoped can never despair.George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer (1898) act 2
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"