H. W. Shaw Quotes
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
