ANSWERS: 18
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I am not young enough to know everything. Brilliant :)
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Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
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"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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"I have nothing to declare but my genious"
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Here three quotes: "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." "Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." "Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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There is one (I cannot recall the exact wording) about animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. He was a vegetarian.
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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
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'Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.'
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A portrait is a picture of the artist, not the sitter.
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it" -Henry Wotton in the Picture of Dorian Gray
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"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed."~~Lord Henry in 'The picture of Dorian Gray'
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Sorry - double posting (not an Oscar Wilde quote).
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"She was a peacock in everything save beauty."
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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