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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- 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
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- 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
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- 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
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
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- 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
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- 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
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- 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
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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