"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."

Astor, Lady Nancy on women
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on women
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"A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood."

Gray, John on women
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"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

Santayana, George on women
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Meir, Golda on women
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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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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"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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"And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]"

Wilde, Oscar on famous last words
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"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."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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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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"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."

Dylan, Bob on gratitude
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

Wilde, Oscar on interviews
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar on illusion
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on memory
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Watts, Alan W. on identity
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on humility
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"Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate."

Greer, Germaine on women
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft on purpose
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."

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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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