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The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
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Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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