Oscar Wilde

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

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.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

People are used to being coddled.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.