Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
All art is quite useless.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
It's easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit…
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the…
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Love is needing to be loved.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and…
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
I have gathered a posie of other men?s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
All war is deception.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Plato was a bore.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
What if a kid goes to school after seeing.
I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each…
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and…
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words:…
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.