Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Mistakes Quotes

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life;...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy...

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy...

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them...

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a...

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a...