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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

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People

I beg your pardon I didn’t recognise you – I’ve changed a lot.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Oscar Wilde

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

Oscar Wilde

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

Most people are boring and stupid.

Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to master something, teach it. A great way to learn is to teach.

Richard Feynman

Education isn't something you can finish.

Isaac Asimov

In special education there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

Temple Grandin

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

To have someone understand your mind is a different level of intimacy.

Thomas Horne

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

Thomas Babington Macauley

I am against all war.

Sophia Loren

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elisabeth II, “LS ”

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

Lovers have a right to betray you; friends don't.

Judy Holliday

If God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter.

George Carlin

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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