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
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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