"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose)

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

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

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

"I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
— Oscar Wilde

"Whenever a man does a thouroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives."
— Oscar Wilde

"Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties."
— Oscar Wilde

"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
— Oscar Wilde

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

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

"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
— Oscar Wilde

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
— George Bernard Shaw

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
— George Bernard Shaw

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
— George Bernard Shaw

"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

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— Geroge Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
— George Bernard Shaw

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
— George Bernard Shaw

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
— George Bernard Shaw

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
— George Bernard Shaw

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

"I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
— George Bernard Shaw

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
— George Bernard Shaw

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"If you teach a man anything, he will never learn."
— Bernard Shaw

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping."
— Dr. Seuss

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"
— Abraham Lincoln

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
— Douglas Adams

"I don't want to die! I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
— Douglas Adams