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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist,...

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Oscar Wilde: The nineteenth century...

Oscar Wilde: The nineteenth century...

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: To believe is...

Oscar Wilde: To believe is...

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.

Source: In Webster's...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: Life is like...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Life is like...

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one...

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George Gordon Byron: Opinions are made...

George Gordon Byron: Opinions are made...

Opinions are made to be changed -- or how is truth to be got at?

Source: Letter, 9...

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Ogden Nash: The only people...

Ogden Nash: The only people...

The only people who should really sin
Are the people who can sin with a grin.


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Ogden Nash: A door is...

Ogden Nash: A door is...

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Source: A Dog's Best...

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Ogden Nash: A lady is...

Ogden Nash: A lady is...

A lady is known by the product she endorses.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ogden Nash: The camel has...

Ogden Nash: The camel has...

The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary, two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are...

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Ogden Nash: Candy,<br>Is dandy,<br>But Liquor,<br>Is...

Ogden Nash: Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is...

Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is quicker.


Source: Reflections on...

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Ogden Nash: A cough is...

Ogden Nash: A cough is...

A cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But ah for...

But ah for a man to arise in me,
That the man I am may cease to be!


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dosn't thou 'ear...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dosn't thou 'ear...

Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awa?y?
Proputty, proputty, proputty- that's what I 'ears 'em...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For good ye...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For good ye...

For good ye are and bad, and like to coins,
Some true, some light, but every one of you
Stamped with the image...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God's finger touched...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God's finger touched...

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Source: In Memoriam, 85 (Note: the stanza...

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William Wordsworth: That best portion...

William Wordsworth: That best portion...

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of...

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William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,<br>An...

William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,
An...

More pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal...

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William Wordsworth: Whither is fled...

William Wordsworth: Whither is fled...

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?


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