"Our necessities are few, but our wants..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.”
“Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.”
“The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.”
More on Human Nature
“Rebukes are easy from our betters,From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt?”
“Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.”
“If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.”
More on Desire
“Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.”
“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”
“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”