The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.