“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
- Sean O’Casey (1880 – 1964)
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 – 1975)
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
- Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
- George Santayana (1863 – 1952)
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Oscar Wilde wrote ”There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Since I’ve found few writers able to match both his brevity and wit, I frequently turn to his writings and quotes to humorously summarize a recent (or not) happening in my life. These are just a …
