Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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...

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The final mystery is oneself.

The final mystery is oneself.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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...

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

When life is hard you have to find the light in your life

When life is hard you have to find the light in your life

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses...

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses...