Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

The menu is not the meal.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.