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Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- 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
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The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- 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
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
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- 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
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- 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
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- 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
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- 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
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- 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
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- 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
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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