A Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw
Irish - Playwright
July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

Caitlin Moran

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Rutger Hauer

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Aleister Crowley

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

Thomas A. Edison

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Paulo Coelho

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Saul Bellow

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

Pentti Linkola

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Leo Buscaglia

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

R. C. Sproul

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.

Alex Ferguson

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

Jaime Camil

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Noel Fielding

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.