Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
● “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”
● “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
General Omar Bradley
● Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
● Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
Ogden Nash
● Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
Ovid
● Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
● If you want to be loved, be lovable.
● A woman is always buying something.
● Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
● There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
● Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
● Few love what they may have.
● Nothing is more powerful than habit.
● Time is the devourer of all things.
● Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
● All things change, nothing is extinguished.
● There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. |