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Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ...
by Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde PHOTO

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde PHOTO

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An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

 

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- 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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde

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

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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