Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner. |
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter. |
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days? |
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days ? |
Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament. |
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. |
Better never than late. |
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. |
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality. |
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. |
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself |
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies |
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human |
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use. |
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should hav |