"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
-Jack Handy
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilisation, which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain the and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilised world." - Octave Mirbeau, 'The Torture Garden'
"I am not stupid. I might come across as stupid. That's nothing to do with academic qualifications. I think there's a difference between intelligence and knowledge. There are plenty of people with letters after their names who only know figures and dates. It's possible to know a lot of facts but not know anything at all." - Richard Edwards
"up all hours sketching a thousand great schemes...hope I'm not too tired to colour them in." - Sleeper
"I can resist everything, but temptation." - Oscar Wilde
"I'm not afraid of the words, so release them." - Now It's Overhead
"Don't say a word. The last one's still stingin'." - Spoon
"Each time that one loves, is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible." - Oscar Wilde
"Is there no light in your heart for me? You've closed your eyes, you can no longer see." - Chicane
"Your smile is heaven made. Your eyes are getting blue. God don't ever make them fade, that will be the death of you." - The Clint Boon Experience
"So young, so angry... damn that rap music." - Dr. Dolittle
"We're making eye contact. Oh those hypnotic eyes attract such philanthropic flies. That's that, you cannot stop it, so why the devil do you try?" - Divine Comedy
"When it happens, you’ll feel like an islander. You’ll see ships and they’ll be reminders, that you’re on an island. I’m on an island. The chances are there’s a reason we’ve been left here. But I’m not disappointed" - Idlewild
"Satan says you need more color." - Cecil B. Demented
"I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad. I've got sunshine... in a bag. I'm useless, but not for long. The future is coming on." - Gorillaz
"Oh no I see, a spiderweb is tangled up with me. And I turn my head and thought of all the stupid things I'd said" - Coldplay
"These bonds are shackle free/ wrapped in lust and lunacy" - Placebo
"Isolation is a means to an end/ it's amazing how fast you'll forget about your friends" - Bluetones
"You give me your secrets, you give me your heart,
And I smile whilst you fall apart." - Pulp
"The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the vains. Its camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own." - R. S Thomas
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