Tag: Henry Wheeler Shaw

The great desire of my life is to amuse somebody. I had rather be able to set the multiplication table to some lively tune than to have been the author of it.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Genuine grief is like penitence, not clamorous but subdued; sorrow from the house-tops and penitence in a market place shows more ambition than piety.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

I don’t suppose there has ever lived a man without a single virtue. Even Judas Iscariot “went and hanged himself.”

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Love is like the measles; we can’t have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Most people when they come to you for advice come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The hardest thing that any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it is wet, and get up and praise the Lord.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Don’t mistake vivacity for wit, there is about as much difference as there is between lightning and a lightning bug.

Henry Wheeler Shaw