"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. "
-Oscar Wilde
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
""Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-Oscar Wilde
*Confessed Oscar Wilde addict*
2006-12-02 11:51:23 · 40 answers · asked by bella 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"Maybe your purpose in life is simply to stand as a warning to others." ~Despair.com
"I don't know, just press it and find out-" ~Famous last words of some anonymous dude.
"I've learned....That life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes." ~Unknown
"I laugh myself to sleep at night...its my lullaby" ~Unknown
"It hurts to admit when you make mistakes - but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second" - Despair.com
"Every cloud has a silver lining—but lightning strikes thousands of people each year who are trying to find it." - Despair.com
"If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly! Do what you love and f*ck everything else!" ~ Dwane, Little Miss Sunshine
"A police officer tried to stop me today, I let him off with just a warning." ~Unknown
"There are no stupid questions. Just a lot of inquisitive idiots." ~Despair.com
"The harder you try, the dumber you look when you screw up." ~Unknown
'Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?"' ~Despair.com
"If you never try anything new, you'll miss out on many of life's great disappointments." ~Despair.com
And probably my favorite: "When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor." ~Despair.com
And yeah, Oscar Wilde rocks.
2006-12-02 11:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Simon 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"What good fortune for governments that the people don't think"
~ Adolf Hitler
"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people"
~ V, from the film "V for Vendetta"
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
~ Mark Twain
“If they can get you asking the wrong question, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”
~ Thomas Pynchon, from "Gravity’s Rainbow"
"Never answer the question you were asked. Answer the question you wish you were asked."
~ Robert McNamara, on press conferences.
"The middle of the road is the usable part. The extremes, both right and left, are in the gutters."
~ President Eisenhower
"Those that trade liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
~ Ben Franklin (the exact wording of his quote is debatable; I've seen a few variations, but the point he's making remains the same)
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
~ President T. Roosevelt
And pretty much anything from Thomas Paine.
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2006-12-02 12:19:42 · answer #2 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Wenn mancher Mann Wuesste, Wer mancher Mann waer, Gaeb mancher Mann manchem Mann manchmal mehr Ehr!" (an old Germ saying, If more people knew who more people were they would more often pay them more honor, roughly translated).
"Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own." (Don't know the source, but he was an Australian.)
"...and after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been." 'Island of the Aunts', by Eva Ibbotson, p172
"Must we go any further? ... My toes are all bruised and bent, and my legs ache, and my stomach is wagging like an empty sack." Bilbo from 'The Hobbit' ('Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire' chapter)
And my favorite of all: "It doesn't TAKE all kinds- they're just all HERE." from my friend
2006-12-02 12:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by boots&hank 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
“A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed”
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot."
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
“The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.”
2006-12-03 01:19:21 · answer #4 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ralph Waldo Emerson's entire essay "Compensation", and Henry David Thoreau in his Conclusion to "Walden" where he says "...if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined..." and ends with "If you have built your castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." He spent 10 years writing that, and I think it is one of the greatest paragraphs ever written.
2006-12-02 11:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have two favorites and both are by C.S. Lewis
"The problem with trying to convince yourself that you're stupider than you really are is that you must often succeed."-The Magician's Nephew
"Courage is not just one of the virtues but all of the virtues at their testing point.'-The Screwtape Letters
2006-12-02 12:03:34 · answer #6 · answered by jesusfreak_357 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"To live is the rarest thing in the world...Most people exist that is all."
***Oscar Wilde***
&
"Instead of pointing a finger...Why not hold out a hand? "
--unknown--
2006-12-02 12:03:06 · answer #7 · answered by jazseven1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart, pursue those. Author unknown
2006-12-02 12:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by Billy FZ1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you were born, everyone around you was smiling and you were crying. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that is why we call it the present!
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana!!!
(dont no who there by... but i like them anyway)!!!
2006-12-02 11:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by Lime Jelly ♫ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A mans worth is not measured by his actions but by the spirit in which they are undertaken.
War does not determine who's right or wrong..It determines who's left..!
2006-12-03 10:16:50 · answer #10 · answered by PliNk_PloNk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋