Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Who, being loved, is poor?;"Oscar Wilde

Wisdom comes with winters.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

I lost my Oscar virginity to four girls and Dave Moore.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

True friends stab you in the front.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

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

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Life would be dull without them.

Your fortune stateth: If you sow your wild oats, hope for a crop failure.

Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub,'' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.