Quote #119
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
More from Oscar Wilde
- I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are…
- Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.