Oscar Wilde Best Quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The heart was made to be broken.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Who, being loved, is poor.

Emily Dickson Best Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Beauty is not caused.
It is.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

My friends are my estate.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I’m nobody, who are you?

The brain is wider than the sky.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Divorce: The past tense of marriage…

• All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
• In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
• Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
• There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
• One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
• A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
• Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
• A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
• Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.  ~Ogden Nash
• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel:  expensive, but worth it.
• Our wedding was many years ago.  The celebration continues to this day.

Og Mandino best Quotes

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Do all things with love.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Khalil Gibran best quotes…

From Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Mark Twain best quotes…

From Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Falling Up.!

He who is too sure of himself and acts without thinking is heading for his downfall.

Do not laugh at the fallen; you may find slippery roads ahead.

No chicken will fall into the fire a second time.

When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.

What lowers itself is ready to fall.