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I can resist everything except temptation.
- 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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- 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
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- 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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- 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
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- 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
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- 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
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- 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 best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- 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
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others:
or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous
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