"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."

Wilde, Oscar on daughters
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"Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

Woolf, Virginia on confidence   

"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes."

Stassinopoulos, Arianna on gender   

"The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous."

Cartland, Barbara on virginity   

"I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would."

Jenkins, David on jesus christ   

"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin."

Thurber, James on wit   

"The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect."

Sade, Marquis De on fame   

"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."

Proverb, English on idleness   

"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on hope
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"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness   

"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."

Proverb, English on kindness
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"The mob has many heads but no brains."

Proverb, English on mobs   

"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."

Proverb, English on opportunity   

"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on health
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"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."

Proverb, English on hair   

"A small family is soon provided for."

Proverb, English on family   

"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on experience
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"He that seeks trouble never misses."

Proverb, English on delinquency
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"Never step over one duty to perform another."

Proverb, English on duty
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on debt
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders."

Proverb, English on parents and parenting
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"Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is."

Proverb, English on poverty and the poor   

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on fathers
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."

Wilde, Oscar on generations
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on faults
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods."

Proverb, English on cheating   

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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