P.K. Shaw Quotes
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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 painter or ploughman.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.