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Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Paul Erdős
I've finally stopped getting dumber.
Robert A. Heinlein
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense.
History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.