Occupation: Humorist Birth: January 21, 1864 Death: August 1, 1926
There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly..
Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names..
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself..
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things..
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman..
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder..
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!.
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common..
Selfishness is the only real atheism..
I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!.
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it..
How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is-- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of western wind, Sunshine's div….
The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into….
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitall….
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand..
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull..
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all..