Oscar Wilde Quotes
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Quotes to Explore
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE
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Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
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The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
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Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
