citate oscar wilde: A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fa tal.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civili zation in between. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time th at nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. I can resist everything except temptation. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles bet ter than anything else in the world Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know e verything The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. True friends stab you in the front. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothin g. citate mark twain: All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all d oubt. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how litt le we think of the other person. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Prosperity is the best protector of principle. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepar ed to die at any time. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. There are lies, damned lies and statistics. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign y ou're getting old.

citate george bernard shaw: Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent m any for appointment by the corrupt few. He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a politi cal career. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. Most people do not pray; they only beg. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for i t, and become blind to the arguments against it. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murd er him he calls it ferocity. citate george carlin: Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough mone y not to quit. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense , reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. Thomas Jefferson The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the reli gion of solitude. Aldous Huxley