Quotes
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009OSCAR WILDE
“Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.”
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
TYLER DURDEN (in Fight Club)
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. ”
“Self improvement is masturbation.”
LORD BYRON
“I doubt whether a quiet & unagitated life would have suited me—yet I sometimes long for it.”
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.”
RAINER MARIA RILKE
“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
