The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde 
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- 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
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
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- 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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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 mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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