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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
— T.H. White

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"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

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"I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe."
— T.H. White (The Book of Merlyn)

tags: diversity, eternity
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,554 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,282 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,125 people liked it

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: books, humor
532 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
925 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
502 people liked it

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america
282 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,903 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,819 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,467 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,312 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,319 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,179 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,851 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,465 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
5,928 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,880 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,914 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,800 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,667 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,508 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
551 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

485 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
417 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
294 people liked it

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: love
270 people liked it

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness
269 people liked it

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult
256 people liked it

"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, work
229 people liked it

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, suspense
225 people liked it

"Youth is wasted on the young."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: elderly, growing, potential, respect, waste, youth
140 people liked it

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: agree
139 people liked it

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? "
— Oscar Wilde

136 people liked it

"The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: advice, humor
122 people liked it

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
— Oscar Wilde

114 people liked it

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction
110 people liked it

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
93 people liked it

"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

92 people liked it

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
— Oscar Wilde

88 people liked it

"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

74 people liked it

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
— Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational
1,715 people liked it

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
— Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work
1,192 people liked it

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