If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
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.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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...
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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.