Quote #24

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
  2. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
  3. On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
  4. Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
  5. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
  6. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
  7. le mystere de l'amour est plus grand que le mystere de la mort.
  8. It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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