Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
Ernest Hemingway
Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her.
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Oscar Wilde
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Ernest Hemingway
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Ernest Hemingway
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Osho
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Osho
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You can not be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Osho
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Osho
Life begins where fear ends.
Oscar Wilde
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Osho
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Osho
The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Osho
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.
Oscar Wilde
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
Osho
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.
Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Oscar Wilde
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.