My reputation grows with every failure.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in He...
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good do...
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.