Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.