Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Popular Quotes



“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 
― Marilyn Monroe

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss


“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” 
― Albert Einstein


“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 
― Oscar Wilde




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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Poetry - Quotes

Poetry is just the evidence of life.  If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.  ~Leonard Cohen

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.  ~Robert Frost

 Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.  ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951

 A poet can survive everything but a misprint.  ~Oscar Wilde

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Being Yourself Quotes


He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull


 Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland