H. W. Shaw Quotes
The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity.
It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?
I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.
Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.
Don’t judge people for their success or what they have today, when you don’t know their past.
Expectation kills. Just go with the flow, you might be surprised when something better comes along in an unexpected way.
People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist.
Now, ' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.
The trouble with having a fertile mind is that the weeds grow as prolific as the pastures.
Strong people are those who have been broken so many times, lost many people in life but still have love to give and strength to trust again.
The winds shook off in unison and yipped beneath the gleaming stars.She gave him her lips. They kissed.And she was in love with the thunder.
The bride's about to throw her bouquet, " Mom told me the day after she turned 96. "Come on, June, get me up there!" (She stole the bouquet and kept it.)
Thank you for that, boy genius! Where did you graduate from? Hogwarts School for the Mentally Unbalanced?
It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.
Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.
He’s an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I’ve slept with.
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?