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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - The Doctor's Dilemma (act V) [Humor] Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories [Immortality] Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories [Doctors] Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories [Care] Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories [Quacks] Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors, an essay, The Latest Theories [Health] Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors (The Technical Problem), an essay [Mistake : Usefulness] The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. - The Great Goldwyn, by Alva Johnson [Money] Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. - The Irrational Knot [Money] Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. - The Irrational Knot [Memory] A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception. - The Irrational Knot (ch. XVIII) [Idleness : Work] There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles. - The Man of Destiny [England] The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. - The Philanderer (act II) [Love : Women] Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. - The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet [Murder] The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. - Three Plays for Puritans (preface) [Fashion] A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman. - Unsocial Socialist (ch. V) [Work] Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers. - Unsocial Socialist (ch. V) [Women] You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. - Unsocial Socialist (ch. XVIII) [Women] The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. - You Never Can Tell [Hotels] You never can tell. - You Never Can Tell, title of a play [Knowledge] Displaying page 12 of 12 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12]
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