"Except during the nine months before he..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
More on Human Nature
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”
“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 you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”
“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
More on Nature
“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”
“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”