Quote #125
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from George Bernard Shaw
- Happiness and beauty are by-products.
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.[1]
- What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
- Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progre…