Sunday, August 2, 2009

Quotes by Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Mark Twain
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
- Mark Twain
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
- Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
- Mark Twain
Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.
- Mark Twain
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Mark Twain
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
- Mark Twain
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
- Mark Twain
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Mark Twain
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
- Mark Twain
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain

10 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
- Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
- Oscar Wilde
Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
- Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Quotes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde | Cynicism Quotes
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde | Experience Quotes
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
- Oscar Wilde | Fear Quotes
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde | Genius Quotes
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde | Knowledge Quotes
For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde | Memory Quotes
Men become old, but they never become good.
- Oscar Wilde | Men Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
- 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
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Oscar Wilde
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
- Oscar Wilde
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
- Oscar Wilde