Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
