Quote (#577)

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
- Scott Adams

"We do what we must, and
call it by the best names."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who can make you
believe absurdities can
make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and
not a very high-class way to earn a
living. After all, Shirley Temple could
do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except
there's no music, no choreography, and
the dancers hit each other."
- Jack Handey

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
- Oscar Wilde

Quote (#565)

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in
America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
- Clive James

"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction
to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
- Alvin Toffler

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness
is being free to do anything."
- Floyd Dell

"If I were two-faced, would
I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- H. L. Mencken

Quotes (#461)

"My definition of an expert in any field
is a person who knows enough about what's
really going on to be scared."
- P. J. Plauger

"Idealism is what precedes experience;
cynicism is what follows."
- David T. Wolf

"When I read about the evils of
drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henny Youngman

"No one means all he says, and yet
very few say all they mean, for words
are slippery and thought is viscous."
- Henry Adams

"Illusion is the first
of all pleasures."
- Oscar Wilde

"Everybody hates me because
I'm so universally liked."
- Peter de Vries

Quotaria

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in 7 years.
- Mark Twain

There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to? You are a child of God.
- Marianne Williamson

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It's not just in
some of us; it's in everyone.
- Marianne Williamson

Luck is a matter of preparation
meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey

Prayer is less about changing the world
than it is about changing ourselves.
- David J. Wolpe

Quotaria - Oscar Wilde

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
- Oscar Wilde

"America had often been discovered before
Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
- Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too
many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde

"One should absorb the colour
of life, but one should never
remember its details. Details
are always vulgar."
- Oscar Wilde

"Why was I born with
such contemporaries?"
- Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one
wishes to live, it is asking others
to live as one wishes to live."
- Oscar Wilde

Quotaria - Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating man
somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"Seriousness is the only
refuge of the shallow."
- Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is
pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

"The pure and simple truth is
rarely pure and never simple."
- Oscar Wilde

"There are only two kinds of people who
are really fascinating: people who know
absolutely everything, and people who
know absolutely nothing."
- Oscar Wilde

Quotaria - Oscar Wilde

"A man cannot be too careful
in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde

Scandal is gossip made
tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde

"I can resist anything but the temptation
to make a clever witticism."
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough
to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least
it always gets on one's nerves - which is the
same thing nowadays."
- Oscar Wilde

"Morality, like art, means
drawing a line someplace."
- Oscar Wilde

Quotaria - Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde

In examinations the foolish ask questions
that the wise cannot answer.
- Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- Oscar Wilde

"One is tempted to define man as a rational
animal who always loses his temper when he
is called upon to act in accordance with
the dictates of reason."
- Oscar Wilde

We have really everything in common with America
nowadays except, of course, language.
- Oscar Wilde

Quotaria - Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they
go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make
them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains one through
life is the consciousness of the immense
inferiority of everybody else, and this
is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant.
It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde

"I like persons better than principles,
and I like persons with no principles
better than anything else in the world."
- Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde

Then she paused. A rose shook in her blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick breath parted the petals of her lips. They trembled. A southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress. "I love him", she said simply.
- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some
of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde

Religions die when they are proved to be true.
Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde

If one tells the truth, one is sure,
sooner or later, to be found out.
- Oscar Wilde